At 10:35 a.m., on December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made history in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They made the first powered, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air flying machine. It was an aircraft they designed and built, simply called the Flyer. They had invented the airplane., DALLAS — Today, in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer. The flights took place 4 miles (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina., Designed and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton, Ohio, it was assembled in the autumn of 1903 at a camp at the base of the Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, a village on the Outer Banks of North Carolina., Their invention of the Flyer, which was the first crewed, powered, heavier-than-air and (to some degree) controlled-flight aircraft, brought people and ideas together like never before., Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903, the pair achieved the amazing feat of the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight in history., 120 years ago today, Orville and Willbur Wrights took off to the skies with the world's first heavier-than-air aircraft, the Wright Flyer. As the first human-controlled flight, though it lasted just a mere 12 seconds, it marked the beginning of a transformative era in aviation..