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Front of the ivory 12 Seconds heavyweight tee, printed with 12 SECONDS, 120 FEET and 10:35 A.M. above the 17 December 1903 Kill Devil Hills line

12 Seconds Heavyweight Tee | D1903

$42.00

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The first powered flight lasted twelve seconds. On 17 December 1903, Orville Wright left a wooden rail on the flat sand at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, and covered about 120 feet before the machine settled again. Three more flights followed that morning; Wilbur’s fourth reached 852 feet. The town of Kill Devil Hills did not exist yet, and the flights were not in the village of Kitty Hawk. The chest is the duration. Heavyweight tee, forty-two dollars.