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Using the exact designs and Spartan materials the Wright
brothers used a century ago, retired American Airlines pilot
Ken Hyde and his team of aviation enthusiasts have spent
nearly a decade crafting working replicas of eleven of the
Wrights' original aircraft and two of their engines. Their
painstaking projects include the famous 1903 Wright Flyer,
which made the first controlled, sustained, and powered flight
on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, and the 1911 Wright Model
B, which crowned the Wright brothers' accomplishments as the
first-ever passenger airplane. In this photo gallery, visit
Hyde's "Wright Experience" workshop, hangar, and backyard
airfield in Warrenton, Virginia, and get a glimpse of his team
at work and a sense of the ups and downs of their
reconstruction project. — Lexi Krock
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