Wright Brothers make history with first powered flight at Kitty Hawk in 1902

The plane during assembly. PIC courtesy/Dare County Schools

Over 120 years ago, in 1902, the Wright Brothers performed the first controlled, sustained, powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

On December 17, a team of US students unveiled the first plane built there since the original Wright Brothers' creation, unveiling a raft on the exact day the Wright Brothers first took flight over a century ago.

The aircraft was built over 2 years. More than 100 people, including Paul Wright-Jameson - a great-great-nephew of Wilbur and Orville Wright - gathered at Kill Devil Hills to celebrate the moment.

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