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When was the first aeroplane flown?

Wilbur and Orville Wright of the USA made the first successful powered flight in 1903. They flew a two-winged ‘biplane with a petrol engine weighing 90 kg (200 lb) that they had built themselves. The first flight lasted twelve seconds and covered 36.5 m (12o ft).

Aeroplanes developed quickly. In 1909 Louis Bleriot of France flew across the English Channel. The next year an American, Eugene Ely, took off from a ship. Planes were used for observation and then as bombers and fighters in the first world war. In 1919 two Englishmen, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, crossed the Atlantic non-stop for the first time. Eight years later Charles Lindbergh, the famous American pilot, made the first flight from New York to Paris in his specially-built monoplane ‘The Spirit of St Louis’.