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On the morning of December 17, 1903, Orville Wright rose into the wind from a 60-foot wooden track laid on these sands. For the first time in history, a machine carrying a man raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, sailed forward without reduction of speed, and finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started. The flight lasted about twelve seconds.
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