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...This February, Fifteen Minutes received a mailing from the Department of State, U.S.A. Among the contents: a letter from Madeline K. Albright urging FM to educate readers about travel outside the U.S. At the request of the Secretary of State, FM reprints an official Department of State flyer. The document reads as follows...
...mercy of any strong gust of wind. But with help from their wind tunnel, the brothers amassed more data on wing design than anyone before them, compiling tables of computations that are still valid today. And with guidance from this scientific study, they developed the powered 1903 Flyer, a skeletal flying machine of spruce, ash and muslin, with a wingspan of 40 ft. and an unmanned weight of just over...
...with Orville at the controls, the Flyer lifted off shakily from Kitty Hawk and flew 120 ft.--little more than half the wingspan of a Boeing 747-400. That 12-sec. flight changed the world, lifting it to new heights of freedom and giving mankind access to places it had never before dreamed of reaching. Although the Wright brothers' feat was to transform life in the 20th century, the next day only four newspapers in the U.S. carried news of their achievement--news that was widely dismissed as exaggerated...
...another century, who knows where the next Wright brothers will be found, in what grade of school they're studying, or in what garage they're inventing the next Flyer of the information age. Our mission is to make sure that wherever they are, they have the chance to run their own course, to persevere and follow their own inspiration. We have to understand that engineering breakthroughs are not just mechanical or scientific--they are liberating forces that can continually improve people's lives. Who would have thought, as the 20th century opened, that one of its greatest contributions would...
...Flyer, a plane built by American inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright, makes the first powered flight...