... Wrights had established a contract with the Army Signal Corps, they had to instruct the new pilots. Historian Timothy Warnock notes, "Orville personally trained or oversaw the training on Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, of at least 115 individuals."" (Warnock 53). Over time the planes that ... Flight was perhaps the ultimate signal that a new, modern age had begun" (Smithsonian 505). Other impacts that the Wright Flyer had on society and history itself were the transatlantic flights of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. These historical attempts would not have been remotely possible wi...

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