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	Wright brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilbur Wright was born in Millville, Indiana in 1867, Orville in Dayton, Ohio in 1871.
		The Wright brothers agreed to the proposal, adding that their pilot and airplane would put on an exhibition once the cargo was delivered to the Driving Park landing area on the east side of Columbus.
		Several claims are actually after the Wrights, and lay claim by discounting the Wrights' attempt either on the basis of its authenticity (that it's valid enough), on some technical basis of the flyer in relation to the technical details to the title, or sometimes both.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wright_Brothers (2992 words)

	Wright brothers: Wilbur and Orville Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bishop Milton Wright and Susan Catharine Wright had four sons, Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur, and Orville, and one daughter Katharine.
		Wilbur, their third son, was born on a small farm near Millville, Indiana April 16, 1867, while Orville (1871-1948) and later Katharine were born at 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton.
		Although Bishop Wright was a firm disciplinarian, both parents were loving and the family was a close one.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~stwright/WrBr/Wrights.html (735 words)

	Wright Brothers National Memorial, National Park Service
		Wilbur took the lead in the early stages of their work, but Orville was soon drawn in as an equal collaborator.
		The Wrights labored in relative obscurity, while the experiments of Samuel Langley of the Smithsonian were followed in the press and underwritten by the War Department.
		Wilbur hit upon the idea of warping the wings - sparked by his observation of birds and the idle twisting of a box - to rotate the wings and stabilize flight.
	www.nps.gov /wrbr/indepth/brochure.htm (2394 words)

	The Wright Brothers: 1st Powered Flight
		Wilbur and Orville Wright were sons of a Bishop, Milton Wright, and his wife Susan.
		Wilbur Wright is the figure on the ground.
		The Wright brothers made one of the most important advances of the twentieth century, launching humankind into the age of flight.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/WrightBros.htm (725 words)

	The Wright Brothers \| Wilbur Wright
		Wilbur died from typhoid at the age of 45.
		Wilbur was self-confident, controlled, and of steady demeanor—“never rattled in thought or temper,” as his father described him.
		Wilbur’s bright future suddenly changed when he was injured playing an ice hockey type of game during the winter of 1885–86.
	www.nasm.si.edu /wrightbrothers/who/1859/wilbur.cfm (357 words)

	Wilbur Wright's Biography
		Wilbur Wright, along with his brother Orville, launched into both history books and legend with the first ever manned powered flight.
		Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867 in Millville, Indiana.
		Wilbur, a strong-willed individual, was able to repeatedly bounce back from physical and academic setbacks.
	wright.nasa.gov /wilbur.htm (659 words)

	The Henry Ford
		Wilbur and Orville in 1878, ages 12 and 8.
		The first time Wilbur and Orville referred to themselves as "The Wright Brothers" was when they started their own printing firm at the ages of 22 and 18.
		A disappointing performance by the 1901 glider prompted the Wright brothers to construct a wind tunnel to test the effectiveness of a variety of wing shapes.
	www.hfmgv.org /exhibits/wright (852 words)

	Aeronautics - Orville & Wilbur Wright
		Born in 1871 Orville and his older brother, Wilbur (born in 1867) were sons of a minister and lived the most proper lives imaginable.
		Orville Wright was a champion bicyclist and so the brothers went into the bicycle business, which gave full vent to their mechanical aptitude.
		The Wright brothers combined their two hobbies by making every effort to equip a bicycle with wings and place an internal-combustion engine aboard to turn a propeller.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aerojava/wright.htm (571 words)

	100 Years of Flight
		Orville and Wilbur were especially interested in the experiments of other flight inventors, such as Octave Chanute in the United States and Otto Lilienthal in Germany.
		The Wright brothers were devastated when Lilienthal was killed by an unexpected gust of wind in a glider accident in 1890.
		Wilbur spent days in the library studying Lilienthal's designs and concluded that the trick to successful flight would be inventing a plane you could control and power.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/flight/wright (511 words)

	Curtiss-Wright Corporation - The Spirit of Innovation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Wright brothers perfected their design to the point where they could sustain flights of 24 miles in which they could bank, turn and do "figure eights." But in 1905, when the Wright brothers offered their invention to the United States army, it was rejected without any consideration.
		Although the Wright brothers were no longer involved with the company (Wilbur had died and Orville had other interests), it can be said that the Wright Aeronautical engine tradition began with the first Wright brothers' engine in 1903.
		Wright bought his company and installed him as Chief Engineer, starting what would be their principal business for the next 40 years.
	www.curtisswright.com /history (2902 words)

	PBS - Chasing the Sun - Orville and Wilbur Wright
		After years of development, Orville and Wilbur Wright finally were ready to test their first powered plane, the Wright Flyer.
		Once the Wrights had been granted their patent, they finally felt secure enough to begin proving to the world that they, indeed, were the true pioneers of aviation.
		Wilbur Wright set sail for France along with an unassembled version of one of their planes.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/owwright.html (827 words)

	Symposium Papers: The First Aerial Canoe: Wilbur Wright and the Hudson-Fulton Flights
		Wilbur Wright recognized the importance of the role of aviation in the celebration of transportation, which was the primary focus of the Hudson-Fulton event.
		Wilbur Wright, flying from a monorail, was unaffected by the sandy conditions.
		Wilbur Wright's Hudson-Fulton flights were a great achievement in that they demonstrated powered controlled heavier than air flight for the first time for the people of America's largest city.
	www.libraries.wright.edu /special/symposium/sanford.html (3499 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica - Britannica's Heritage
		WRIGHT, Wilbur,(1867-1912), American inventor, son of Milton and Susan Catharine (Koerner) Wright, was born near Millville, Ind., on April 16, 1867.
		When Wilbur Wright was one month old his father was elected editor of the official organ of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, necessitating moving his family to Dayton, O. ; and eight years later he was elected a bishop of that denomination requiring other changes of residence.
		Wilbur Wright went to Europe in 1908 to make the tests required in the sale of the French rights to a syndicate.
	www.britannica.com /heritage/article?content_id=1331 (912 words)

	Wright Brothers Photography
		Wilbur came to his defense, and his arguments before the church court were successful in exonerating his father.
		Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism.
		Wilbur Wright running alongside to balance the machine, has just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /wrightbrothers.html (452 words)

	USATODAY.com - French hope to mark another Wright brothers' flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilbur and Orville Wright, two bicycle-building brothers from Dayton, Ohio, brought their dreams of flight to Kill Devil Hills, a barren stretch of sand dunes a few miles south of the village of Kitty Hawk.
		When Wilbur Wright arrived soon after in France, Leon Bollee — a car manufacturer who was the French sponsor of the brothers — had arranged for him to demonstrate flight near the Le Mans racetrack provided mechanics to help him.
		Tise, a Philadelphia historian who is editing all the Wright brothers papers, said he had recently contacted the Frenchmen and had visited with them in Le Mans, which claims that its Wright monument, dedicated in 1920, was the first in the world.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-02-22-wright-bros-fr_x.htm (729 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Wilbur and Orville Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912) and Orville Wright (1871 - 1948)
		Wilbur Wright was older than Orville by four years.
		The Wrights remained in aviation for the rest of their lives.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/btwrig.html (371 words)

	WayBack . Flight . Wright Flight \| PBS KIDS GO!
		One day, when Orville and Wilbur Wright were boys, their father returned from a trip with a gift that would help change their lives--and history--forever.
		One day, after Wilbur took a bicycle inner tube out of a long cardboard box, he noticed that by twisting the ends of the box in opposite directions he could make the edges of the box twist like the pigeons' wings.
		In the winter of 1901, the Wrights used a wind tunnel to study the problem.
	pbskids.org /wayback/flight/feature_wright.html (981 words)

	Orville & Wilbur Wright
		Orville and Wilbur Wright are remembered for inventing the first working engine-powered airplane.
		Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867, near Millville, Indiana.
		In the winter, when the biking season was over, the brothers had time to think about one of their favorite ideas—the idea of flying.
	www.harcourtschool.com /activity/biographies/wright (362 words)

	Orville Wright \| Co-Inventor of the First Successful Airplane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When the Wrights first offered their machine to the U.S. government, they were not taken seriously, but by 1908 they closed a contract with the U.S. Department of War for the first military airplane.
		Wilbur died in 1912, just as the airplane was beginning to make great advances.
		Wright Flyer Online - Learn about the Wright Flyer Project, in which a full-sized replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer, flown in the first-ever powered flight, will be wind tunnel tested at NASA Ames Research Center.
	www2.lucidcafe.com /lucidcafe/library/95aug/wright.html (497 words)

	The Wright Brothers Web Resources for Students
		Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight of an airplane.
		The Wright Brothers first serious interest in flying machines appears to have come after news of the death of the German glider pilot, Otto Lilenthal, in 1896.
		Aviation pioneers Orville Wright, lying prone at the controls of the Flyer, and brother Wilbur watching from the ground during the first manned, powered and controlled flight, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17, 1903.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/wright.htm (981 words)

	"Flights of Inspiration" - First Flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilbur Wright and his younger brother Orville were ordinary boys with ordinary toys.
		Neither Wilbur nor Orville was an educated man. Yet in order to fly, they had to become scientists.
		Information about the Wright Brothers' Aeronautical Engineering Collection, the electronic digitization of the objects, copyrights, and an index of the contents of "First Flight" are available.
	www.fi.edu /flights/first/intro.html (234 words)

	Orville Wright's Biography
		Orville Wright was born on August 19, 1871 on 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio.
		His adventurous nature and drive to succeed combined with his brother Wilbur's research skills to achieve what is considered by many to be the greatest, most influential accomplishment of the 20th century.
		April 29, 1936: Orville Wright was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
	wright.nasa.gov /orville.htm (572 words)

	The Wright Brothers: Wilbur and Orville - EnchantedLearning.com
		Orville and Wilbur Wright were raised in Dayton, Ohio.
		Wilbur Wright died in 1912 of typhoid fever; Orville died in 1948.
		The Wright brothers' famous airplane, the "Wright Flyer," is on permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., USA.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /inventors/page/w/wright.shtml (475 words)

	The Wright Brothers Photographs: Kill Devil Hills - Kitty Hawk, NC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilbur and Orville Wright flying 1901 glider as a kite.
		Dan Tate and Wilbur Wright flying 1902 glider as a kite, Sept. 19, 1902.
		Wilbur and Orville took more than 300 glass-plate photographs of their expeditions and later travels.
	www.outerbanks.com /wrightbrothers/wrightlc.htm (311 words)

	TIME 100: The Wright Brothers
		Wilbur and Orville Wright were two brothers from the heartland of America with a vision as sweeping as the sky and a practicality as down-to-earth as the Wright Cycle Co., the bicycle business they founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1892.
		It was a force that led the Wright brothers to invent, single-handedly, each of the technologies they needed to pursue their dream.
		When published aeronautical data turned out to be unreliable, the Wright brothers built their own wind tunnel to test airfoils and measure empirically how to lift a flying machine into the sky.
	www.time.com /time/time100/scientist/profile/wright.html (689 words)

	Profile of Wilbur and Orville Wright - FlightDeck Aviators
		Wilbur Wright watches as his younger brother Orville pilots the world's first airplane.
		Wilbur and his younger brother Orville repaired and manufactured bicycles in Dayton, Ohio.
		Orville Wright was full of mischievious pranks around his family, but outside that tightly-knit circle, he was almost pathologically shy.
	www.exn.ca /FlightDeck/Aviators/wright.cfm (696 words)

	Wright Brother's letters to the Smithsonian
		Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867-May 30, 1912) and Orville Wright (August 19, 1871-January 30, 1948) were the inventors of the first successful airplane.
		Because of this, in 1925, he loaned the Wright 1903 Flyer to the London Science Museum, promising that it would not return to the United States until the Smithsonian renounced its claim.
		The Wright 1903 Flyer was placed on display in the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building on December 17, 1948.
	www.si.edu /archives/documents/wright.htm (424 words)

	Robert G. "Wilbur" Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert G. "Wilbur" Wright scored the first single mission triple victory by a U.S. Air Force pilot since the Korean War.
		Wright graduated from ACSC in 1996 and was assigned to the Pentagon.
		With Wright on their tail, the hostile J-1 Jastrebs began attacking a factory and Wright was given clearance to fire.
	www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/98bios/wright98.htm (438 words)

	The Wright Brothers
		Orville Wright was born on August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio and his older brother, Wilbur Wright, was born on April 16, 1867 in a farm near Millville, Indiana.
		Their father, Milton Wright, was a bishop in the United Brethren Church and their mother, Susan Catherine Wright, was a housewife.
		Wilbur have to stay at home and took care of his mother during her long illness, Wilbur was twenty-two then.
	www.kyrene.k12.az.us /schools/brisas/sunda/inventor/wright (419 words)

	The Wright Brothers- Wilbur and Orville
		From an early age, both Wilbur and Orville Wright demonstrated keen inventive mechanical abilities far beyond boyhood interests, culminating in the formation of the Wright Bicycle Company in 1892, a successful bicycle manufacturing and repair business.
		Other pioneers, in both the United States and England were inspired by their achievements and the aerospace industry as the giant we know it today, had begun.
		Wilbur died of typhoid fever in 1912—Orville continued to be active in the aeronautical field as an engineer and consultant until his death in 1948.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/wrightbros.htm (675 words)

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