The Invention of the Airplane
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The Gliders of the 19th Century
Otto Lillemphahl created 16 glider designs and took over 2,000 successful flights. American astronomer Samuel Pierpont Langley made the first unmanned flight of a vehicle powered by an engine in 1896. The Wright brothers had an iterative process beginning with kites and gliders to try to develop a system for controlling a vehicle in the air.
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