The Wright brothers began building a flying machine in their Dayton, Ohio bicycle shop in 1899, eventually traveling to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1900 to test their machine.

By 1903 they had made numerous flights, unmanned and manned, making changes
and improvements with everyone. This 1903 Flyer superimposed over a vintage map of the Carolinas Outer Banks reflects an early view of the times. To quote French student of flight Louis Pierre Mouillard, the Wrights were “to sail upon the wind.”