2007-03-15 04:52:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
This info is a bit hard to find, but according to the link below, the first airplane flew at an average speed of thirty one miles per hour, in a period of 57 seconds. The link below provides the telegraph that the Wright brothers wrote to inform their father of the successful flight. In this telegraph, they mentioned the average speed at which their machine traveled through the air. Please see the first link.
The second link provides the blow-up of the telegraph, and you can see clearly what was typed on it in Orville's own words.
2007-03-15 05:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by Dowland 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the average speed was 2 mph, but the highest it reached was 5mph. I am not sure though...
2007-03-15 04:55:13 · answer #2 · answered by thesatsui 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They traveled only 6.8 miles per hour, and it went 120 feet.
2007-03-15 04:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by Kerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6.8 miles per hour. (If you mean the aeroplane, and not the gliders they worked with before that)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Adding_power
2007-03-15 05:03:54 · answer #4 · answered by madbaggage 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could reach 30mph.
2007-03-15 04:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by Fitron 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no one knows because it blew up before radar detectors were invented!!
2007-03-15 05:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by Steve Jobs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
23.85mph
2007-03-15 05:08:42 · answer #7 · answered by James B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋