Leisure amenities at The Westin New Orleans Canal Place include a fitness center and steak, seafood, and Mississippi River views at The Green Bar.
1903 would become a year for the history books. That year the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, would fly the first powered, controlled, heavier-than-air airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. 1.
The Wright Brothers were NOT the first to fly a plane-a German pilot beat them to it two years earlier in a flying car, claims leading aviation journal. 1  Gustave Whitehead is believed to have flown his Condor plane in August 1901 - more than two years before the Wright Brothers' infamous flight.iew. comments. The Wright Brothers are famous for flying the world's first successful airplane in 1903 - yet they may have been beaten to the record two years earlier, according to a prestigious aviation journal.