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Detailed explanation-1: -In need of winds and a place that would provide a soft landing, the brothers chose Kitty Hawk, NC, as the perfect location to launch their Wright Flyer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Several attempts by leading designers proved unsuccessful, and the honor of the first sustained and controlled flight of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft went to two bicycle shop owners from Dayton, Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Wright brothers designed and made their own propellers, aided by the use of their own wind tunnel (which they also designed and built themselves). The propellers worked as rotating wings; their spinning motion produced a horizontal lift, or “thrust, ‘’ that pushed the plane through the air.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wind, sand, and a dream of flight brought Wilbur and Orville Wright to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where, after four years of scientific experimentation, they achieved the first successful airplane flights on December 17, 1903.