Today 118 years ago, Orville and Wilbur Wright made four successful powered flights, 120 feet, 175 feet, 200 feet, and 852 feet. Unfortunately, after the fourth flight, a gust of wind overturned their machine, and it was damaged beyond repair. But they had created a lighter-than-air machine that flew under its own power. They packed everything up, came back to Dayton, built another machine, and in the summer of 1904, were learning how to be pilots at Huffman Prairie. As Orville wrote in his diary that day, “I got on the machine at 10:35 for the first trial. The wind, according to our anemometers at this time, was blowing a little over 20 miles. The machine lifted from the track just as it was entering the fourth rail. A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.” You can see more photographs from my series Wright Brothers: Then and Now at www.ClearyFineArtPhoto.com.