For National Aviation Day, we’re highlighting a rare view from inside a wind tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. The plane is a replica of the historic craft that was invented, designed, and flown by the Wright brothers in what’s generally acknowledged to be the first powered airplane flight–an event that took place on Dec. 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. On that day, both Wilbur and Orville Wright took turns flying their aircraft, dubbed the Wright Flyer, cementing their place in aviation history. Their original plane lives at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, where it inspires generations of pilots and innovators to come.
On the wings of the Wright brothers
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Dark skies over New Mexico
-
Birthplace of Roman emperors
-
The puffin-rabbit connection
-
Mid-Autumn Festival
-
The cycle begins anew
-
National Museum of African American History and Culture
-
Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington, DC
-
Let the harvest begin
-
Isla del Pescado on the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
-
It s International Jazz Day
-
World Bee Day
-
Lunar eclipse
-
The Battle of the Bulge 75 years later
-
International Kissing Day
-
Happy New Year! (Again!)
-
Goats don t grow on trees
-
A tower of remembrance
-
Necropolis of Dargavs
-
In praise of the old…the very old
-
Autumn in Alaska
-
Festivus
-
A red knot on the Shetland Islands, Scotland
-
Bearded reedlings in Flevoland
-
Back to the nest
-
Happy 50th for the National Trails System!
-
Guild houses of Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium
-
Happy Mothers Day!
-
Wartburg Castle overlooking Thuringian Forest in Germany
-
It s superb owl Sunday
-
Füzér Castle in the Zemplén Mountains, Hungary