The United States Postal Service releases a new Wright brothers stamp in honor of the first flight.
 

This is the fifth time the U.S. Postal Service has recognized the Wrights on a stamp. To see the stamps, click here.

Seventy-six years ago today, 25 year-old Charles Lindbergh was sound asleep in Paris, having just flown alone across the Atlantic.

Seventy-one years ago yesterday, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo, and the only person to have flown across the ocean twice.

Lindbergh was greeted by more than 100,000 cheering people in the dark of night. Earhart was off course when she put down in a northern Ireland field near Londonderry.

"Where am I," she asked the lone witness who watched her climb down from her modified Lockheed Vega.

"In Gallegher's pasture," he replied. "Have  you come far?"

"From America."

And 100 years ago today, the Wrights continued work on the engine for their flyer.

Whether you're flying solo or working with your closest partner, whether you land exactly where you intended or somewhere dramatically off course, it only costs 37 cents to send word of your progress.

And after today, a commemorative postage stamp is available to remind us of how to Soar to Success the Wright Way.
 

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