By DALE GRANGER
History and technology aficionados may find significance that 2023 represents the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, achieving humankind’s first flight on Kitty Hawk at at field in North Carolina that lasted 12 seconds travelled 120 feet at a top speed of almost 11km/h and reached an altitude of 10 feet.
At that juncture, how many aviators, politicians or scientists, would have predicted that 65-years later, earthlings would be flying people to the moon, at a time when the Ford Motor Club had only launched six months prior to Kitty Hawk lifting off with vehicles considered vastly inferior to equestrian transport by traditionalists who often hollered “get a horse” at pioneering motorists, laced with profanities.