One hundred years ago today, the first powered heavier-than-air flight was achieved at 10:35 A.M. at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Orville Wright, of Ohio, was at the controls of the Wright Flyer.

The entire human race has benefited from the persistence and ingenuity of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Their invention and surrounding technological breakthroughs have helped knit countries together, saved lives, made possible dramatic increases in the mobility of people, and have spurred on the technological developments that would give rise to America's lunar landing and many, many, other marvelous wonders of technology.

We are honored and blessed to have had them among us.

Visit The United States Centennial of Flight Home Page for more on this monumentous occasion.

It is difficult at this point to say anything more; the magnitude of what these men wrought requires rhetorical skills greater than mine at present to describe.

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