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What was the average speed of the first flight of a powered airplane?

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I think the average speed is 6.8 miles per hour

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The first flight was given as 120 feet in 12 seconds. Doing the math


((120)/(5280) )/((12)/(3600) )

gives 6.82 miles / hour

But the history of what made this flight possible was an engineering act of very careful experimentation and a great deal of thought on how to use mathematics to solve flight problems. It's worth looking up.

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