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Premium Content How Kitty Hawk Changed the World

by Anonymous - June 14, 2004

If you could be present at any event in time, what would it be and why?

(Please note: my assumption in answering this question is that we do not have the ability to "change history" and are simply observing a moment that is important to us.)

Given the opportunity to be present at any event in time, I would choose to be near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. On that gusty afternoon, Orville and Wilbur…

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