United States or French Southern Territories ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Their first interest in the art of flying, they date back to about the year 1879, when I brought home to them a Heliocoptere, a toy which could fly. Later on they began to watch Lilienthal, and followed him to his death, in the art of gliding.
In actual measurment considerably less than a half mile. The place of flight was on the sandy plain near Kill Devil Mills, in Dare County, four miles from Kitty Hawk in Cerrituck County. They flew no more for part of two years, but began negotiations for the sale of their invention.
Their first active work began in the year 1900, when as a vacation, they built a gliding machine on the coast of North Carolina, and each year in the fall of the year, spent a few weeks there till in 1903, they attached a gasoline motor to it and flew, December 17th, four short flights. They flew against the wind and made at the longest only about a half mile, counting the velocity of the wind.