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Who gets credit for the world's first motorized flight? We're all taught that Orville and Wilbur Wright flew first in December 1903. Australian aviation expert John Brown argues that German-born Gustave Whitehead flew before in 1901. The Smithsonian Museum agreed that it would never claim that anyone flew before the Wrights to display the Wright flyer. History may not be as certain as we thought.

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First Flight: Conquest of the Skies

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National Aviation Day: The Pioneers and Gear

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The Point of No Return takes you behind the headlines of the first solar-powered flight around the world as two courageous pilots aim to make history.

The Point of No Return

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Soaring at 28,000 feet without a drop of fuel, nothing is predictable. Not the weather, not the technology, and certainly not the fate of a man. Alone for five days in a fragile, first-of-its-kind aircraft with nothing but ocean below, Point of No Return takes you behind the headlines of the first solar-powered flight around the world. Two courageous pilots take turns battling nature, their own crew, and sometimes logic itself as they aim to achieve the impossible. Not just to make history, but to inspire a revolution.

First Flight: Conquest of the Skies

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First Flight: Conquest of the Skies

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