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The ‘Wright’ stuff on Mars: Flyer fabric to take flight again on Ingenuity helicopter – collectSPACE.com
A small swatch of fabric is set to take flight on a first-of-its-kind aircraft more than a century, and a world away, from where it first made history. The strip…
March 29, 2021
— A small swatch of fabric is set to take flight on a first-of-its-kind aircraft more than a century, and a world away, from where it first made history.
The strip of muslin, which was once part of a wing on the Wright brothers’ 1903 Flyer — the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft — is now on Mars, affixed to Ingenuity, the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on another planet.
“This fabric is from the original aircraft that flew at Kitty Hawk,” said Bob Balaram,…
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