Happy Belated Anniversary, Wilbur and Orville

Yesterday was the 103rd anniversary of the first flight. That's right -- the Wright brothers first slipped the surly bonds at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. The first flight was a 12 second hop that traveled 80 metres. From this inauspicious beginning, the world began to shrink. Over the next half century, peoples of the world became tied in ways that no one would have imagined on that cold December day on the beach in North Carolina.