"The 12 second flight finally took off, and landed, at the
specified time. The tower people commented, 'Wow, that wasn't a
very long flight' as we taxied off the runway. I'm sure we went
more than 180 feet in our 12 seconds, maybe 13 or 14 seconds with
the 172 floating, but it didn't take long at all. That was the
amazing part. I would have liked to have done the four follow-on
flights (of the Wright Brothers) in sequence, timing wise, but it
wasn't in the cards."
Source: Tom Thomas, who, last week, did his own
Centennial of Flight recreation at Dane County Regional Airport in
Wisconsin. Although, like the Wright Brothers, he had a little
trouble at first, he finally managed to get his Cessna 182 into the
air for 12 seconds at the precise moment the Wright Brother
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