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Wright brothers’ first powered flight
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Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P606: 1903Q688605, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“og eksperimentfly Spesifikasjoner Les mer i Store norske leksikon Skrevet av Yngve Jarslett Flyers første flygning, 17. desember 1903 NASA on The Commons. Lisens: Falt i det fri (Public domain) Flyer Smithsonian”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19“and testing three full-sized gliders, the Wrights' first powered airplane flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, making a 12-second flight, traveling 36 m (120 ft), with Orville piloting. The best”Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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