On December 17, 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright brothers accomplished the first successful flight of an engine-driven, heavier-than-air, man-carrying flying machine. The next great milestone in aviation occurred in February 1910 when the Wright brothers established the world's first flying school at the site now known as Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. It was at this point that aviation progressed from trial flights to a commercial development. World history was also made when the first night flights were performed at the school in May of the same year.