Today our Nation celebrates the heroic moment America took to the skies when Orville and Wilbur Wright launched the first controlled, machine-powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.\u00a0 This Wright Brothers Day, we honor the genius and bravery of two pioneers from Dayton, Ohio, and we proudly carry their legacy forward by championing the imagination, perseverance, and bold ambition that gave rise to their magnificent achievement.<\/p>\n
What the Wright brothers lacked in formal education, they matched with unrelenting drive.\u00a0 Despite not earning high school degrees, Orville and Wilbur taught themselves the mechanical and engineering skills they needed to build their first aircraft.\u00a0 They drew inspiration from European gliders and soon after attempted their own leap into the uncharted frontier of powered flight.\u00a0 After 4 years of relentless research, design, and testing, their work paid off on a cold, gray day near Kitty Hawk when Orville lifted their Flyer into the air for 12 seconds, traveling 120 feet at just under 7 miles per hour.\u00a0 Orville and Wilbur\u2019s feat marked the first time in history that man lifted off the ground in a piloted, mechanized flying machine.<\/p>\n
The Wright brothers\u2019 epic feat on the windswept shores of North Carolina opened a new chapter of innovation for all mankind and began a new era of American aviation power that continues to propel our country upwards among the clouds and beyond.\u00a0 Since that historic day in North Carolina, the United States has remained the world leader in flight and aviation.\u00a0 Less than seven decades later, the Wright brothers\u2019 triumph at Kitty Hawk led Americans to the moon, and my Administration is focused on returning there, and beyond to Mars.<\/p>\n
We are also continuing the Wright brothers\u2019 proud legacy by presiding over a new Golden Age of air travel and innovation.\u00a0 Shortly after I returned to office, I signed an Executive Order restoring excellence and safety within the Federal Aviation Administration.\u00a0 We are ending disastrous so-called \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u201d programs that put Americans at risk and restoring the sacred principle of merit to hiring practices.\u00a0 Through the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, we are investing $12.5 billion to modernize air traffic control with cutting-edge technology.<\/p>\n
America is also leading the way in supersonic flight.\u00a0 I have ordered the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct groundbreaking levels of research and development into commercial supersonic flight, driving new advances in air travel that will incorporate the latest Artificial Intelligence technologies.<\/p>\n
In the 122 years since the Wright brothers\u2019 revolutionary flight, our Nation has never stopped gazing upward in wonder and hope.\u00a0 As we commemorate Orville and Wilbur\u2019s legendary achievement today, we pledge to carry their vision into every new frontier and keep America\u2019s skies bright with the innovation, discovery, and unstoppable spirit that drive our Nation to new heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today our Nation celebrates the heroic moment America took to the skies when Orville and Wilbur Wright launched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-355026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}