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The Wright flights were all failures on Dec. 17, 1903. So says the data. You who treat it as a religion a belief system are causing Wikipedia to earn its very bad name so that no one may safely reference it. A bunch of opinionated people trying to control history against the tide. Read the William J. Hammer papers for a view on what really was happening to promote the Wrights for the purpose of their lawsuit. A pioneer invention gains a broader patent so presto they were ""first"".   "