When you're at an airport and see propeller aircraft, you likely think it is powered by a piston engine. This is usually true among smaller planes, like the Cessa 172 Skyhawk and the Piper Archer ...
The Wright Flyer, which made the world's first sustained, controlled heavier-than-air flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, ushered in the Age of Flight with a host of innovations.