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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
Business
Hannah Baker

From flying taxis to electric planes, what does the future hold for air travel?

It's nearly 120 years since the world’s first motor-operated plane took flight.

American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright are generally credited with inventing - and successfully operating - the first piloted aircraft in North Carolina in 1903.

The duo’s ground-breaking achievement, a feat almost impossible to comprehend at the time, would mark the birth of an industry that would change the world.

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