The Wright Brothers
Oct 31, 2014
The Wright Brothers
Inventing and building the world's first successful airplane
Making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903
The brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft
The Flyer, especially by 1905, was the first heavier-than-air, manned, powered, winged machine to fly successfully under full control, using aerodynamic principles developed by the Wright brothers and applied since then on all practical airplanes.
Inventions
Wilbur Wright
Born- April 16, 1867Died-May 30, 1912 (age 45) in typhoid fever1886 winter- accidentFaught for their patent rights until his death
Presented an independent personality Never graduated from high school Loved to read and write!
“I have always thought I would like to be a teacher.…”
-Wilbur Wright
Facts about wilbur
Orville Wright
Born August 19, 1871Died January 30, 1948( aged 76) after his second heart attackStarted his own printing businessSold their company in 19151930- recieved the first Daniel Guggenheim Medal1936- was elected a member of the National Academy of Science
Developed an interest in technology and science early in life
More of an inventor than Wilbur Very shy but a class clown Never graduated from high school
Facts about Orville
In 1889 the Wright Brothers started the West Side News
It was a weekly newspaper that Wilbur and Orville Wright published briefly in 1889 and 1891
The West Side Newspaper
In 1893 The Wright Brothers started a bicycle shop that allowed them to rent and repair bicycles.
Only 5 of the Wright Brothers’ bicycles exist to this day.
The Wright Cycle Company
The Wright Brothers developed their plans for a flying machine from bicycle concepts
The Beginning
Wright Flyer 1“ On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, the Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.”
Kitty Hawk
This stopwatch was used to time the Wright Brothers’ flights at Kitty Hawk
The first successful flight was 12 seconds long and covered 120 feet
Travel to Kitty Hawk was tedious The Wright Brothers found a local cow
pasture just outside of Dayton where they could extend their experiments and practices
Huffman Prairie
The farmer who owned Huffman Prairie didn’t not charge rent to the brothers but he insisted that they make sure the farm animals were out of the way first!
The Wright Flyer 2 worked well However, Wilbur and Orville still found it
difficult to control On October 20, 1904 the Wright Brothers
flew the first complete circle in an aircraft The flight was 1 minute, 36 seconds and
covered 4,080 feet
Wright Flyer 2
The Wright Flyer 3 was much easier to control
The Wright Brothers began to stay in the air for longer and longer periods of time
Wright Flyer 3
In 1905, the Wright Brothers’ experimental period ended
With their third powered airplane, they now routinely made flights lasting several minutes
On October 5, Wilbur made an amazing flight in which he circled the field 30 times in 39 minutes for a total distance of 24 1/2 miles
The Ending
Pictures of first flightFirst flight of Wright flyer 1 Wright flyer 3
THE END