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This story originally appeared at Flyingmag.com.
By Julie Boatman
When you know you’re going to mangle an airplane over and over in your attempt to fly it, you choose soft sand — or forgiving prairie grass.
This was certainly true of Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903 as the brothers...
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