156K views · 3.1K reactions | 115 years ago today, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight in history. On December 17th, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of a gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane. The aircraft stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Here is Wright Brothers' RARE Footage ===> for powerful stories from any time like HistoryBites | HistoryBites | Facebook

On view in our Franklin Air Show exhibit, is one of the last surviving original Wright Brothers airplanes. The Wright Model B was the first plane manufactured in quantity by the Wright Brothers, and they enforced a strict policy for those interested in acquiring one of their flying machines. In order to buy a plane from them, you had to first take flying lessons at their factory in Ohio. The brothers would only ship the plane to the customer only when they felt that person was capable of flying