This Inventor Beat the Wright Brothers at Their Own Game

Name: This Inventor Beat the Wright Brothers at Their Own Game
Uploaded: 2018-05-15T20:38:43Z
Duration: 4 min 46 s
Description: In 1908, in order to prove his new plane was better than the Wright Brothers' model, Glenn Curtiss accepted a daunting challenge they had declined: a ,500 prize to be the first to fly 5,000 feet in public.

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In 1908, in order to prove his new plane was better than the Wright Brothers' model, Glenn Curtiss accepted a daunting challenge they had declined: a ,500 prize to be the first to fly 5,000 feet in public.