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2025-04-23 18:24:20 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 42B1C921A66462512A8242EE310C03CCFDFBEB7499E6AB7DF9050F0C31142011
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Original Note:
Wright Brothers’ flight pictures were only released in 1908 AFTER Santos Dumont’s successful flight in front of thousands of people in Paris. Few friends as testimonies and only their own annotations corroborates their claim. Later attempts to replicate were unsuccessful. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/svjn6u/is_there_a_way_to_know_if_the_1903_photo_of_the/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.wired.com/2003/12/wright-flyer-replica-fails-to-fly/#:~:text=KILL%20DEVIL%20HILLS%2C%20North%20Carolina%20%E2%80%93%20A,ground%20and%20splashed%20into%20a%20mud%20puddle.&text=As%20a%20crowd%20estimated%20at%2035%2C000%20groaned%2C,Kevin%20Kochersberger%20dropped%20his%20head%20in%20disappointment.
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