The Wright brothers

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Wilbur and Orville Wright the first aeroplane in the United States of America in 1903.
While the boys were up, they were always repairing and fixing things. They kites and sold them to classmates.
Later, they opened a bicycle shop and repaired bicycles.
The Wright brothers thought of the flight when one day their father from a trip and surprised the boys with a toy.
It a toy helicopter. The boys admired the toy very much and they said that they to fly.
They used the money from the bicycle shop for their first flight experiments. The historic lasted for just 12 seconds and covered 120 feet.
This changed the world forever.

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