Description English: Summary: Photograph shows the first powered, controlled, sustained flight. Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on
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Institution Orville Wright, inventor of the airplane Commander John Henry Towers; U.S.N., part of the first non-solo transatlantic flight in 1919 Joseph Sweetman