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Professor Langley made several unsuccessful attempts to fy his aircraft, called 'The Aerodrome' from the top of a houseboat moored in the Potomac River in Washington. The pilot Michael Manly luckily survived, having flown barely 15 yards. The aircraft was reproduced in 1914 (with several modifications) and flown briefly as a seaplane by Glenn Curtiss. Despite having been unsuccessful, Langley's rebuilt aircraft had pride of place in the Smithsonian Institute as 'The First Powered Aircraft Capable of Flight' for many years, with a small model of the Wright Flyer beneath. It was only after Orville Wright's death in 1948 that the original Wright Flyer was returned from the London Science Museum and put on show, with an amended label, in the Smithsonian.

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