Question

select the word that means a success or victory.
in 1897, brothers orville and wilbur wright began thinking about human flight. they watched birds flying, studied kites, and built gliders. in 1901, they went to kitty hawk, north carolina, to fly their gliders on an empty beach. they experimented with different glider designs to study what moved through the air best. they wanted to build a machine that could actually fly, rather than just glide across the sky. at first they had many failures, but on december 17, 1903, the wright brothers finally took a flying machine into the air. local people witnessed their triumph. although their longest flight that day lasted just fifty - nine seconds, it was enough. the age of airplanes had begun.

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the context. The Wright Brothers had failures but then succeeded in flying their machine. The word "triumph" in the passage is used to describe their successful flight, and it means a success or victory.

Answer:

triumph