41. The plane made famous 100 years ago by Orville and Wilbur Wright will make another historic landing later this year. 42. Fliers Wilbur Wright and Glenn H . Curtiss used it as a landing and takeoff strip between 1909 and 1916. 43. In 1909, aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright took off from the island for a flight around the Statue of Liberty. 44. It was Wilbur Wright 's last visit to the Outer Banks before his death in 1912 of typhoid fever. 45. Wilbur Wright flew Charles W . Furnas for a distance of 2.5 miles in a Wright Model B.46. *1909 Wilbur Wright makes five flights in Centocelle, Italy with King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy present. 47. *Wilbur Wright at College Park, Maryland, becoming the U . S . s first female passenger. 48. Formed to manufacture airplanes, the company s president is Wilbur Wright and his brother Orville is the vice president. 49. Wilbur Wright flies for five minutes, four seconds over Huffman Prairie, Ohio, flying just under 3 miles.50. In 1908, he was one of Wilbur Wright 's first passengers in his first French flights at Auvours.
