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On this day in 1867 Wilbur Wright was born.
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Orville Wright was born.
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Attempeted to fly his gasoline powered plane off of a houseboat in the Potomac River
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The brothers first flight. It was about 800 feet
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Won the Scientific American trophy for flying one kilometer.
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He flew in World War II with the Tuskegee Airman
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This is the date of the first American air show. It took place in Los Angeles, Califonia.
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Became the first U.S. woman to earn a pilots license. The second woman in the world to do so.
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Katherine became the fouth youngest female pilot at 16 years old. Two years later Majorie earned hers, later both sisters opened a pilots school and taught their own brother and other men to fly.
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Got a pilots license at a school in France and was the first African American woman to get the license. Then, she opened a flight school for american blacks. Sadly she died in a deadly plane crash in 1926.
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Took his flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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First to fly the Atlantic Ocean alone. Died in an attempt to fly around the world.
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Charles' son got kidnapped and it got so serious the family vrought in and called the FBI of the United Stated of Ameriva.
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Earned her pilots license and made the first government approved school for African Americans.
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Jaqueline Cochran mastered records with most every plane of her time. She also trained women to fly who were going into WWII.
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He shot down 26 German planes in World War II
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Became the first black general in American Air Force history.
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Ruaaian man Yuri Gagarin was the first known human in space.
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The first mission to the Moon.
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This was one of the biggest days for America.
