Male: On the 17th December, 1903 Orville Wright sent his father Milton a telegram. It said Orville let his brother Wilbur that made four successful flights using engine parallel and that his father should inform the newspapers. The Wright brothers have just entered the record of books. Orville and Wilbur both took terms to pilot the Wright flying and in the process became the first people on earth to make a controlled pilot flight.
Born into a close middle class family in Mid-Western, United States, the brothers grew up in Dayton, Ohio towards the end of the 19th century. When the boys were aged 8 and 12, they were given a toy helicopter powered with a rubber band until it broke, so they build their own. As young men, the brothers open their own bicycle sales and repair shop. The business proved profitable. America was in the brief of a cycling phrase. The Wright brothers designed and manufactured some popular bicycles. The business provided funds for the brothers to indulge in their real passion aviation.
This is the Catherine to have the business so Orville and Wilbur could develop more time to designing flying machines. Wilbur came up with the plan to use cables to draw the struts and spires so they are glided together so one side took up and the other side down. Unlike other airplane prototypes, the pilot would actually have control. Wilbur tested his theory on a box kite, it work. From 1899, Orville built a full sized gliding. They chose the tiny town of Kitty Hawk in South Carolina as beginning of the testing. As the windy area had plenty of wide open spaces and good weather, through trial and error they progress from flying a glider as a kite demand flights.
The brothers designed and built their own engine in only six weeks. The historic 17th of December flight was not reported as victory but this film with the late flight made by the brothers gives a sense of the momentous occasion.
Bill Corcoran: One was gusting it 30 miles an hour. They were flying into that stiff wind. Orville took off that morning and in 40 feet he was off the ground. The plane in that stiff wind was purposing up and down. It would go into a dive. It was difficult for Orville to fly that plane at morning but he was determined to stand in the air as far as he could and he was in the air for 8 seconds, 10 seconds, 12 seconds later, 120 feet from the starting point. Orville landed that plane here at the number one stone marker. It was only 12 seconds, 120 feet but that was the first time man was able to break those bonds with the earth with the powered flyer.
Male: The brother made three more flights with Wilbur piloting to fly at more than 800 feet. For the next two years they refined the designs until developing the fly of five. The first air craft able to take off and land under the pilot control. They paid and they took out in 1906 cover the method of varying wind angle to control an aircraft and the brothers full of several caught back and against under 88 at all occasions took their toll and look at the dive of type in 1912 and the brothers most famous aircraft Fire one would be seen today at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.
Tom Crouch: Well before 1903, what you heard people say was it God had wanted us to fly he would have given us wings. After 1903, what you heard was you know “Gosh, if we can do that, what can’t we do?” Flight had been the definition of the impossible for so long that when Wilbur and Orville actually did it, it seemed to open all sorts of doors to new possibilities and shape the history of the century.
Male: The flyers label reads by original scientific research, the Wright Brothers discovered the principles of human flight as inventors, builders and flyers and further developed the airplane, taught man to fly in open daily era of vane.
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