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On 84 acres of ordinary pasture near home, Wilbur and Orville Wright taught themselves to fly after realizing in 1904 that aviation needed more than their 59-second straight-line hop at Kitty Hawk. They needed a convenient, private flying field where they could develop their machine further, and over eighteen months of bumps, crashes, and creative problem solving they learned how to safely launch, land, turn, and bank. By the end of 1905, they had transformed their brainchild from a balky mechanical toddler into a graceful, fully functional creature of the air.
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