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On May 6, 1896, Samuel Pierpont Langley's Number 5 unpiloted model flew nearly ¾ of a mile after a catapult launch from a boat on the Potomac River.
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Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts - February 27, 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation.
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