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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 heavierthan-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.

3. Born- April 16, 1867
Died-May 30, 1912
(age 45) in typhoid
fever
1886 winter- accident
Faught for their
patent rights until his
death

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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

5. Born August 19, 1871
Died January 30, 1948( aged 76)
after his second heart attack
Started his own printing business
Sold their company in 1915
1930- recieved the first Daniel
Guggenheim Medal
1936- was elected a member of the
National Academy of Science

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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

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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

8. In 1893 The Wright
Brothers started a bicycle
shop that allowed them to
rent and repair bicycles.
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Only 5 of the Wright
Brothers’ bicycles
exist to this day.
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The Wright Brothers developed their plans
for a flying machine from bicycle concepts

10. 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.”

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

17. First flight of Wright flyer 1
Wright flyer 3