Flying: Why I haven’t got the Wright stuff
PRECISELY 120 years ago, on December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, achieved the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The two fearless, pioneering Americans were overjoyed. Almost 69 years later, in October 1972, Henry Getley made his first flight – from Gatwick to Palma, […]