| 41. | The plane made famous 100 years ago by Orville and Wilbur Wright will make another historic landing later this year.
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| 42. | Fliers Wilbur Wright and Glenn H . Curtiss used it as a landing and takeoff strip between 1909 and 1916.
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| 43. | In 1909, aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright took off from the island for a flight around the Statue of Liberty.
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| 44. | It was Wilbur Wright's last visit to the Outer Banks before his death in 1912 of typhoid fever.
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| 45. | Wilbur Wright flew Charles W . Furnas for a distance of 2.5 miles in a Wright Model B.
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| 46. | *1909 Wilbur Wright makes five flights in Centocelle, Italy with King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy present.
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| 47. | *Wilbur Wright at College Park, Maryland, becoming the U . S . s first female passenger.
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| 48. | Formed to manufacture airplanes, the company s president is Wilbur Wright and his brother Orville is the vice president.
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| 49. | Wilbur Wright flies for five minutes, four seconds over Huffman Prairie, Ohio, flying just under 3 miles.
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| 50. | In 1908, he was one of Wilbur Wright's first passengers in his first French flights at Auvours.
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