Wright flight re-enactment fails

One hundred years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, an attempt to recreate the moment failed in the USA when a replica craft could not get off the ground and sputtered into the mud.

One hundred years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, an attempt to recreate the moment failed in the USA when a replica craft could not get off the ground and sputtered into the mud.

A second try was later aborted.

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