KItty Hawk (1903)

One of the first flights of the Kitty Hawk in 1903.

At end of the nineteenth century, in the United States, technological advances in materials and advanced internal combustion engine began to make more realistic the possibility of building a flying machine heavier than the air, so many engineers, scientists and inventors were forced to follow research in aeronautics beginning a sort of race for success. The Wright Flyer, known also as Kitty Hawk, was one of the most important pioneer-era aircrafts. Designed and built by two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright at the beginning of the twentieth century is generally regarded as the first half heavier than air to have performed a controlled flight, December 17, 1903. Wright brothers’ deed was a real step in the history of flight.