flew twenty-seven kilometers west from Paris to Trappes.
In 1890 another Frenchman, Clement Ader, flew a steam-
powered airplane for fifty meters near Paris. Although this was
the first powered flight of an airplane, it mainly showed that
steam engines were too heavy for the job. True flight only
became possible with the arrival of the lighter gasoline engine.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two American
bicycle mechanics, W ilbur and Orville W right, used a gasoline
engine when they built their flying machine. O n 17 December
1903, this lifted into the sky at Kittyhawk, North Carolina, at
10:35
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