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On December 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m., the first flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Orville Wright, lying prone on the lower wing, was at the controls while Wilbur Wright ran alongside on the monorail to balance the machine and had just released his hold of the right wing. Orville Wright called it the first time in world history that a machine carrying a man raised itself by its own power into full flight, sailed forward without reduction of speed, and landed at a point as high as that from which it had started.
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