When did the wright brothers invent the airplane

Orville Wright
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Born	()August 19, Dayton, Ohio
Died	January 30, () (aged&#;76) Dayton, Ohio

The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, – January 30, ) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, – May 30, ), designed, built, and flew the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air airplane on December 17, ^[1] They had been experimenting for many years with gliders and other vehicles before their first powered flight.

They are also known for making the first way to steer an airplane. They designed the aircraft in Dayton, Ohio, and their first test flight was in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

When did the wright brothers die In the Wright brothers achieved one of the first flights with a powered, sustained and controlled airplane; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the.

Before building airplanes

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The Wrights grew up in Dayton, Ohio. They were sons of a minister.^[2] There were many books in their house, and they were encouraged to ask questions and discover whatever they thought was interesting. Sometimes their father would ask them to argue for a topic, then switch sides and argue for the opposite point of view.

They went to high school, but did not go to college; they started a newspaper instead.^[3] After that, they started a shop to build and repair bicycles.^[4]

Learning how to fly

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“By the s, the Wrights were interested in flight, especially the gliders of Otto Lilienthal.

They started working on making airplanes in their bicycle shop.^[5] They thought controlling a plane was one of the big problems of flight. Lilienthal and others had been killed when they could not control their aircraft. The Wright brothers fixed the problem by inventing control surfaces, such as a rudder that would work in the air.

When were the wright brothers born and died The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, – January 30, ) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, – May 30, ), were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.

They built wings that could be twisted a little^[6] and moved up and down slightly, to control flight. They called this steering system wing-warping.

From to , they built gliders in Dayton and tested them in Kitty Hawk, where there were strong and steady winds. They also made small versions of the wings and built a wind tunnel for model airplanes to test how well different wing shapes would lift an airplane.”

Flying

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In , they built a powered airplane that had propellers and a small engine.

The Wright Flyer airplane first flew successfully on December 17, , near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.^[2] This was the first time people ever flew a powered airplane they could control.

Before that, people flew in balloons or gliders or, for a very short time, in planes they could not control. The two brothers continued to make changes to their design and had a very good plane by

The Wright Brothers kept their discovery largely secret for a couple of years, until they showed it to the world in ^[7] (They had filed a patent on their steering system March 23, )^[8]

After that, they started a company to build airplanes.

They had a patent war with Glenn Curtiss, filing lawsuits against each other over who really invented the airplane steering system. The Wrights believed that Curtiss' aileron system was too similar to their own steering system and that he had copied them.

When were the wright brothers born Wright brothers, American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight (). Orville made the first successful flight, covering feet (36 meters) through the air in 12 seconds.

During the patent war, Wilbur died. Orville continued working to keep his reputation as the first man to fly. Later he sold the airplane company and became an elder statesman of aviation. He died in

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