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On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made their first powered, sus-tained and controlled flight in the first flying machine to have a practical potential.1 Since then the development of aircraft has brought human his-tory into a new era. The year 1908 was an annus mirabilis in aviation his-tory: the Wright brothers made their first flight in public; the first flight with a passenger was made on 14 May by Wilbur Wright, taking C. W. Furnas; and the first passenger flight in Europe was made on 24 May by Farman, taking Archdeacon.
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Choi, JT. (1994). Aviation Terrorism: Its Nature and Developments. In: Aviation Terrorism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23175-1_1
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