The First Successful Flight of an Airplane

was made from this spot by

Orville Wright

December 17, 1903, in a machine designed and built by

Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright

This tablet was erected by the

National Aeronautic Association

of the U.S.A. December 17, 1928

to commemmorate the twenty-fifth

anniversary of this event

Marker can be ...

First Flight to Break the Sound Barrier

X-1 Loading Pit

The Bell X-1 was loaded into its B-29 Launch

Aircraft from this Pit on

October 14, 1947

Captain Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager

Piloted the Airplane to Mach 1.06 (700 mph)

Marker is on West Lancaster Boulevard.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The First Flight

"The flight lasted only 12 seconds, but nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, ...