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The Wright Brothers were inspired by a toy Penaud helicopter that the got as children. Orville and Wilbur open a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio in 1892. The Wilbur Brothers wrote to the U.S. Weather Bureau in 1899 asking where would be a good place to do flying experiments. The first successful test was in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The first airplane fatality was Lt. Thomas Selfridge who was a passenger in Orville's new plane being tested at Fort Meyer in 1908. Orville and Wilbur received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1909.

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