December 17, 2013 marks the 110th anniversary of the world's first powered flight by the Wright Brothers in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. The Wright Experience tested a reproduction of the successful Wright Flyer in NASA Langley's historic Full Scale Tunnel in 2003, in anticipation of a flight at the 100th anniversary celebration. Orville Wright (inset photo from 1922) visited NASA Langley frequently as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics which established what was then the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory as the first civilian aeronautics lab in the U.S. The NACA became NASA in 1958.
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December 17, 2013 marks the 110th anniversary of the world’s first powered flight by the Wright Brothers in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. The Wright Experience tested a reproduction of the successful Wright Flyer in NASA Langley’s historic Full Scale Tunnel in 2003, in anticipation of a flight at the 100th anniversary celebration. Orville Wright (inset photo from 1922) visited NASA Langley frequently as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics which established what was then the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory as the first civilian aeronautics lab in the U.S. The NACA became NASA in 1958.