wright brothers

     

The Wright brothers, Orville (19 August 1871 – 30 January 1948) an Wilbur (16 April 1867 – 30 May 1912), were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed wing flight possible.

Trivia about wright brothers

  • A telegram from these 2: "Average speed...thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.Inform press.Home Christmas"
  • On May 22, 1906 they received a patent for an improved model of their airplane
  • In 1962 on the 59th anniv. of their flight, they were posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame
  • A general aviation airport 12 miles south of Dayton, Ohio is named for these 2 men
  • In 1900 they made history with a glider that had a new feature: a horizontal front rudder for pitch control
  • In January 1904 these 2 inventors issued a statement about their success at Kitty Hawk, but it got little attention
  • A replica of their cycle shop is in Dayton's Carillon Historical Park
  • Inventive brothers at Kill Devil Hill:December 17, 1903
  • In 1899 this pair started their research with a biplane flown like a kite
  • The Travel Channel Online has a fantasy flight of their 1903 flyer jumping 8 SUVs
  • The older of these 2 brothers was born in Indiana in 1867; the younger in Dayton, Ohio, in 1871
  • "The Bishop's Boys", about this pair, is by Tom Crouch, a Smithsonian Air & Space Museum curator
  • A historic message from them began, "Success. Four flights Thursday morning"