The students listened, watched and thought about which information is the most important.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were bicycle mechanics in Ohio who wanted to fly.
Jot notes
- Orville and Wilbur Wright - brothers
- Flew first self powered air plane - Dec 17, 1903 'The Flier'
- Influenced by parents. Mother Mechanical, Father Library / Research
- First built printing presses
- Then made, repaired & sold bicycles
- Tested theories of flight by observing birds (curved wing helps rise)
- Did not invent first glider - that was in the 1800's
- Designed wing after twisted a box and realized needed to twist wings
- First testing - rose 15ft of the ground & travelled 300 ft.
- Challenges - weather, rain, crashed glider & plane, working with others data
- 1902 dev fully controllable glider - next needed to add power
- Made propellers and uilt engine to make them spin fast.
- Orville was the one to fly successfully first. Flew 12 secs - 120 Ft
- Kept flying and flew 800 ft that day.
- 1909 - Wright Company - Making planes and Aviation school - training pilots.
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