France - Le Mans - Wright Brothers replica and airshow crowd

French aviation enthusiasts at an airshow at Le Mans in northern France watch aerobatics overhead - in front of a scaled replica of The Flyer, the first powered aeroplane by the American Wright Brothers. The Wright Flyer is the first successful powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it for the first time on December 17th, 1903 for 12 seconds over 120 feet near the Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S. Today, the airplane is exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. though many scaled copies exist at similar events such as this.

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French aviation enthusiasts at an airshow at Le Mans in northern France watch aerobatics overhead - in front of a scaled replica of The Flyer, the first powered aeroplane by the American Wright Brothers. The Wright Flyer is the first successful powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it for the first time on December 17th, 1903 for 12 seconds over 120 feet near the Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S. Today, the airplane is exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. though many scaled copies exist at similar events such as this.