[Newspaper notice of Wright Bros. 1st flight: Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Dec. 18, 1903: headline] – Historic Reproduction
![[Newspaper notice of Wright Bros. 1st flight: Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Dec. 18, 1903: headline], 1903 Dec. 18. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f2/f2f02db39b1d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Newspaper notice of Wright Bros. 1st flight: Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Dec. 18, 1903: headline] comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few newspapers noticed the Wright brothers' first powered flight when it happened, and this print preserves an early report: a headline from the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, dated December 18, 1903. The notice came the day after Orville and Wilbur Wright made four brief flights at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, on North Carolina's Outer Banks, with the first covering about 120 feet in 12 seconds. Because the story was small and often garbled in print, the clipping shows how quietly the achievement first entered the public record. The details here come from an old caption card and have not been checked against other copies.
| Created / published | 1903 Dec. 18. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | No reference copies. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,202 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144332 |
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