"The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies." - Wilbur Wright
bank, and turn, that Wilbur Wright
executed the tight and low
This was so disquieting, in fact, that at the end of the 1901 season a disheartened Wilbur Wright
declared, "not within a thousand years would man ever fly!" In fact, Wilbur's may have been an optimistic opinion for the time.
Orville and Wilbur Wright
, sons of Milton Wright, a bishop in the United Brethren Church, changed the way we think about and interact with our world.
Not well, not far, but enough to make history in a 120-foot, 12-second ride that carried Orville and Wilbur Wright
into history 100 years ago today as the world's first inventors and pilots of a powered heavier-than-air craft.
* Orville and Wilbur Wright
invented and flew the first power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine in 1903.
had written after the discouraging results In 1901 that man would not fly for a thousand years.
All this while the Wrights had been working in secrecy--but on hearing of Santos-Dumont's achievement, Wilbur Wright
wrote to Captain Ferber of the Aereo Club of France:
The Wright Flyer built by Orville and Wilbur Wright
was the first to achieve what had previously been only dreamed about or sketched on paper: a successful flight of a heavier-than-air craft powered by an internal combustion engine.
After all, it was a celebration honoring the achievements of hometown boys Orville and Wilbur Wright
, who built their famous plane in their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop.
WHY: Without Orville and Wilbur Wright
, two bicycle-making brothers from Ohio, you'd spend your vocations in a care screaming "Are we there yet?"
Circuit Court, Western District of New York, Orville and Wilbur Wright
submitted an affidavit in the case of Orville and Wilbur Wright