At10:35am on 17 December 1903, history was made in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, when Orville Wright piloted the Wright brothers' motorised aircraft for the first sustained and controlled flight.
This revolutionary achievement, lasting a mere 12 seconds and covering 120 feet, marked the dawn of powered aviation, a culmination of years of meticulous experimentation and innovation by Orville and Wilbur Wright.
The modest flight symbolised humanity's unyielding ambition to conquer the skies, forever transforming transportation, warfare, and exploration, and ushering in an era where the vastness of the world grew smaller with every subsequent leap in aeronautical ingenuity.
