117 years ago, 2 brothers from Dayton, Ohio, USA, taught the world to fly.

12 seconds that changed the world

117 years ago, two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, USA, taught the world to fly.

The Wright brothers made the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on this date in 1903.

Happy #FirstFlight Day to Orville & Wilbur Wright from Global FBO Consult.

Also on this day, in 1935, the first flight of the Douglas Sleeper Transport (DC-3) took place with Chief Test Pilot Carl Cover at the controls. That was just 32 years after history was made at Kitty Hawk.

More than 10,600 of the DC-3 & it's many military variants (C-47, C-53, C-117, R4D to name a few) were produced at several factories across the USA. The Soviet Union built just short of 5,000 as the Lisunov 2 & 487 were built in Japan by Mitsubishi as the L2D Type 0.

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Polish Air Force Lisunov Li-2 on public display, Krakow