JUST BEFORE 8 A.M. on May 14, 1908, Wilbur Wright made an easy landing on the beach at Kitty Hawk.He had covered about 2,000 feet in just over 28 seconds, figures that by this point in his career were routine, even underwhelming. But it was still a flight for the record books: For the first time,one of the Wrights had taken a secondti person aboard one of their wood-and-fabric machines. That man was my great-great-great-uncle, Charles Furnas.
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