How did the Wright Brothers once become famous people?

Answer 1

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1899- The Wright Brothers designed their first aircraft: a small, biplane glider flown as a kite to test their solution for controlling the craft by wing warping. Wing warping is a method of arching the wingtips slightly to control the aircraft's rolling motion and balance.

Over the next three years, Wilbur and his brother Orville would design a series of gliders which would be flown in both unmanned (as kites) and piloted flights.

Following a successful glider test, the Wrights built and tested a full-size glider. They selected Kitty Hawk, North Carolina as their test site because of its wind, sand, hilly terrain and remote location.

In 1900, the Wrights successfully tested their new 50-pound biplane glider with its 17-foot wingspan and wing-warping mechanism at Kitty Hawk, in both unmanned and piloted flights. In fact, it was the first piloted glider.

In 1901, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, the Wright Brothers flew the largest glider ever flown, with a 22-foot wingspan, a weight of nearly 100 pounds and skids for landing.

During 1902, the brothers flew numerous test glides using their new glider. Their studies showed that a movable tail would help balance the craft and the Wright Brothers connected a movable tail to the wing-warping wires to coordinate turns. With successful glides to verify their wind tunnel tests, the inventors planned to build a powered aircraft.
After months of studying how propellers work the Wright Brothers designed a motor and a new aircraft sturdy enough to accommodate the motor's weight and vibrations. The craft weighed 700 pounds and came to be known as the Flyer.

Orville Wright took the Flyer for a 12-second, sustained flight on December 17, 1903. This was the first successful, powered, piloted flight in history.

In 1904, the first flight lasting more than five minutes took place on November 9. The Flyer II was flown by Wilbur Wright.

In 1908, passenger flight took a turn for the worse when the first fatal air crash occurred on September 17. Orville Wright was piloting the plane.

In 1909, the U.S. Government bought its first airplane, a Wright Brothers biplane, on July 30. The airplane sold for $25,000 plus a bonus of $5,000 because it exceeded 40 mph.

In 1911, the Wrights' Vin Fiz was the first airplane to cross the United States.

In 1912, a Wright Brothers plane, the first airplane armed with a machine gun was flown at an airport in College Park, Maryland.

Answer 2

The Wright Brothers didn't invent the air plane.
They got famous for taking out patents on a plane, blocking further development for 10 years.
Otto Lillienthal flew Gliders 40 years earlier.
There where several others, DaVinci drew planes 500 years before.
Karl Benz made sure, with the invention of the Otto Motor, that a plane could be equipped with a Motor light enough to flight.
The Wright Brothers used Lillienthals scripts and drawings for their planes.
What they invented was the vertical ruder, to keep the plane straight or turn at will.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The Wright Brothers did *not* invent the aircraft. They had the first sustainable, powered, controlled and *well documented* flight. So, like Otto Lilienthal, Clément Ader, Richard Pearse, Sir George Cayley, Jean-Marie Le Bris, and Alberto Santos-Dumont, they played their role in the development of the fixed-wing airplane.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The Wright brothers built and flew the first airplane in North Carolina, thank you.

Answer 7

Wright brothers-oliver and wilbur were the inventors of the aeroplane..so they became famous

Answer 8

by being the first brothers to join the mile high club

Answer 9

They invented the airplane & are still famous today.

Answer 10

oliver wright and his brother invinted the airplane