October 10, 1900 (Wednesday)
- The Wright Glider No. 1 was wrecked after the Wright Brothers put it through its third test. The glider was tethered to a wooden derrick and controlled with various cables, but a 30 mile per hour gust tore the apparatus. After the crash, the Wrights abandoned the derrick as unsafe and, eight days later, flew on the rebuilt glider without restraints, a giant step forward in manned flight.
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Famous quotes containing the word october:
“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)