posted 03-28-2021 12:00 AM               

The 'Wright' stuff on Mars: Flyer fabric to take flight again on Ingenuity helicopter

A small swatch of fabric is set to take flight on a first-of-its-kind aircraft more than a century, and a world away, from where it first made history.

The strip of muslin, which was once part of a wing on the Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer — the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft — is now on Mars, affixed to Ingenuity, the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on another planet.