When was the world's first airplane test flight?

1903 12 17! This is a day in history. On this day, the Wright brothers in the United States achieved the first powered flight in human history.

This plane is called "Flyer". It adopts a pair of front wings and a pair of main wings, both of which are two-wing structures, connected by flax skin and wooden columns. A gasoline piston engine is fixed on the wing surface under the main wing, and a pair of left and right Shuang Ye propellers are installed behind the wing. The tail is a rudder with two wings, which is used to control the direction of the aircraft, while the up-and-down movement of the aircraft is controlled by the front wing. This plane has no landing gear and wheels. It only has skis. When taking off, the plane is mounted on the slide rail, and the car with wheels is used to pull the auxiliary ejection to take off. The pilot bends down in the middle of the lower wing of the main wing and pulls the handle of the control rope to control the aircraft.

-The flight time is only 12 second, and the flight distance is only a negligible 36 meters. However, this is the first time in human history to successfully launch and fly a powered, manned, sustained, stable and maneuverable plane, marking the beginning of the realization of human dreams of conquering the sky.

-The Wright brothers loved aviation in their childhood, and began to read books about flying in 1896. Although they have no higher education, their spirit of studying, exploring and seriously summing up the experience and lessons of their predecessors, indomitable spirit of struggle and fearless spirit of being the first in the world will always inspire the latecomers to keep moving forward.

The Wright brothers have never been married, and they have been with planes almost all their lives. Their names are always associated with airplanes and will remain in people's hearts forever.