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Oct 17, 2022 · The secrets of the Wright Brothers' innovative genius are explored in this historic episode, as NOVA marks the 100th anniversary of powered flight.
- Printers and bike-makers
- Designing A Reliable Flyer
- Beyond Kitty Hawk
- Preserving Their Legacy
Before they made history, Wilbur and Orville were, in one sense, fairly unremarkable children. As the pair grew up in Dayton, Ohio, they weren’t immediate prodigies. “If you were a neighbor of the Wright brothers, say, when they were coming of age in the 1880s or so, you would have thought that these Wright boys aren’t really going anywhere,” Jakab...
The brothers’ pivot from ground to air transportation was likely driven largely by Wilbur. Even as they were producing bikes, Wilbur “was still casting around for something that he could work on to test his mettle,” Jakab says. “Aeronautics was a new technology that people were starting to make some progress on. So, he got interested in flight.” At...
Though the Wright brothers had made history, their airplane was essentially only a proof of concept. It could make straight-line flights, but the design didn’t yet have any practical use for society. Over the next couple of years, the partners refined their aircraft. In 1905, Wilbur flew a new-and-improved version for 39 minutes, completing 30 wide...
Orville “kept pretty much to himself for the rest of his life,” Jakab says. Uncomfortable with outsiders, he was never one to give speeches or thrive in the public eye. In fact, although Orville lived until 1948—nearly a century past the advent of sound recording, some 50 years after radio and 20 years beyond the first televisions—there is no known...
Oct 3, 2022 · The Wrights went back to Fort Myer in June 1909 with a slightly modified new plane. It met the Army’s specifications and then some, exceeding a speed test, which brought them a $5,000 bonus ...
Dec 15, 2022 · The dispute revolved around the Smithsonian’s misleading public display of the aeronautical achievements of its former Secretary, Samuel P. Langley, and the Institution's reluctance to credit the Wright brothers as the true inventors of the airplane.
Rick Young of Flugmaschine Wright is more interested in the process of discovery, and in re-creating the brothers’ working relationship.
Motion Pictures of Wilbur Wright in Flight. Get the full Wright Brothers experience at http://www.wrightbro.com—a multimedia resource for the invention of the airplane....
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Jun 19, 2016 · At the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., curator Jeremy Kinney explained the Wright Brothers' first flight and how they designed the first airplane.
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