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- Kill Devil Hill, a narrow strip of land near Kitty HAwk, North Carolina, was the site of their first experiments in 1900.
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- These pioneer flights were witnessed by only one boy and four men, one of whom photographed a flight as the plane left the ground.
- Few newspapers were interested in the historic flights, and some printed incorrect information.
- Their invention remained unnoticed for the next five years.
- The two brothers, who continued their efforts despite the lack of attention, believed that airplanes would one day carry mail and passengers and hoped planes could prevent war.
- In 1913, a year after Wilbur succumbed to typhoid fever, Orville Wright received the Collier Trophy for inventing an apparatus that balanced airplanes automatically.
- For their contributions to aeronautics, the Wright brothers were elected in 1965 to the Hall of Fame of Great Americans in New York City.