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Each factual sentence used on this site is stored with a source and with the phrases that must appear in the cached excerpt. All 28 claims were checked on 15 November 2026.

• Flight times and distances follow the Smithsonian for the first and last flights, and the National Park Service wayside for the complete four-flight list. The Smithsonian’s “range of two hundred feet” for the middle pair is kept beside the wayside’s 175 and 200 feet, not averaged.
• The telegram’s “fifty-seven seconds” is reported as a transmission error, following the Library of Congress, not as a second official time.
• The Park Service’s “40-foot, 605-pound Flyer” sits beside the Smithsonian’s 40 ft 4 in wingspan and 605 lb empty weight.
• The 6 January 1928 engine photograph is captioned as a later workshop view, not as a 1903 flight picture. The 14 December launching-track photograph is captioned as the unsuccessful attempt, not as 17 December.

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