alt= Above Is the First Airplane Flight Made by Man, at Kitty Hawk, N. C., on December 17, 1903; Wilbur Wright Is Running alongside the Plane, Which Has Just Left the Catapult Track, and Orville Wright Is at the Controls; at Right. Herring Flying One of Octave Chanute's Gliders over the Sand Dunes of Indiana, Just Outside Chicago; Chanute's Experiments Were the Connecting Link between Lilienthal and the Wrights The Original Langley Aerodrome Ready to Be Tested over the Potomac River: It Fell into the Water, but Years Later Was Rebuilt, Re-engined and Flown
