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OCR: The Greatest Paper Airplanes Main Flying Paper Planes Help Cover Flying History Aero Terms Flights Experiments with gliders continued The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, throughout the late 1800s. Then in the adapted a biplane design from a glider 1890s a German named Otto Lilienthal and added a gas powered engine to it. On built a series of gliders made of willow ribs a December day in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, and cotton cloth much like modern hang North Carolina, they succeeded in making gliders. He succeeded in controlled flights the world's first powered, controlled, and and is considered the world's first real sustained airplane flight. Their flight was aviator. He died when a gust of wind blew short (120 ft) and slow (35 mph) but the one of his craft out of control . world of the airplane had begun. Greetings from hermann. 1896 44 3 4