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100 th Anniversary of the Wright Brothers First Flight Issue number
312
Date of issue
17.11.2003
Face value
18.00 Sk
Sell price
0.30 €

The brothers Wilbur and Orwille Wright got trained in mechanics and established a bicycle repair shop in Dayton, Ohio. They were repairing bicycles during a day, but during a night they were secretly assembling new inventions. Finally they constructed an aeroplane. At first they tried their luck with a glider. An experimental flights took place near Kitty Hawk, the area in North Carolina at the coast of Atlantic Ocean. Later they mounted on the glider a self-made fuel engine and on 17th December 1903 this machine took flight. The aeroplane’s wingspan was more than 12 meters and it weight 338 kilograms...

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