Joe Kittinger's view of the Wrights, and what it ALWAYS takes to do something extraordinary. Never give up!
One hundred and twenty years after the Montgolfiers, on December 17, 1903, Orville and Wibur Wright made history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, when Orville piloted the Wright Flyer I in the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air human flight. (The flight, captured in the photo, lasted 12 seconds.)
"Like the Montgolfiers' flight, the Wrights' feat had no precedent," Kittinger told LIFE. "That's not to say that they came out of nowhere, or that they were working in a vacuum until 1903. But like so many breakthroughs, what happened at Kitty Hawk changed the conversation. Countless possibilities opened up. The Wright brothers worked and tested and took risks, and they didn't give up. They learned from their setbacks, and kept going. Their vision and passion would not have led to much without lots of very hard work. That's a common thread that runs through all of the great discoveries and adventures, in all fields of endeavor. Not giving up."
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