CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - As we prepare to celebrate 250 years as one of the greatest countries on earth, we’re also just around the corner from another significant milestone in United States history.

Take a step back in time with no internet, no A.I., and no air traffic controllers. Just two brothers— inspired since preteens in the 1800s to take flight.

The Ohio natives, Wilbur and Orville Wright, were fascinated with air travel from a young age. They would take up careers in bicycle sales and repairs, and experience success— but there was still that desire to fly the friendly skies.

In 1903, they would change the trajectory of traveling.

“December 17 was the culmination of several years worth of research, of testing, of experimenting, and it came together for four flights that day”, R

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