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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

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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