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(Thursday, December 17, 1903, 10:35 a.m. EST) — Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conducted the first successful manned powered-airplane flights today four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at what is now known as Kill Devil Hills, using their experimental craft, the Wright Flyer.

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Orville flew the first flight, which lasted 12 seconds and covered a distance of 120 feet.

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The Wright brothers made three more flights, with Wilbur and Orville taking turns; the fourth flight, piloted by Wilbur, lasted 59 seconds and covered a distance of 852 feet.

Before they could make a fifth flight, the aircraft was overturned by a gust of wind, destroying it.