Did the Wright brothers’ first powered flight predate the sinking of the Titanic?

The Titanic belongs to the age of steam and grand ocean liners, and aeroplanes seem to belong to a later, faster world, so it is easy to assume the ship sank before anyone had flown. In fact the Wright brothers’ first powered flight came first, on 17 December 1903, more than eight years before the Titanic sank on 15 April 1912. By the time of the disaster, aeroplanes had been flying for years. The Titanic sank on its first voyage, the year after it was launched, and it is the sinking that is compared here. The two events are usually pictured in different eras, but on a time ruler they sit close together, nine year labels apart. The age of steam and the age of flight overlapped.