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| Unfortunately, for hundreds of years, airplane designers followed the bird paradigm too literally, producing a long series of failures. From the mythical fiasco of Icarus ... |
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... to the ill-fated ornithopters of the late 19th century, early attempts at flight were simply too birdlike. |
| On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers finally got it right with their first successful flight of the Flyer, a self-powered airplane based on their eariler glider designs. |
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