Curtiss-Wright have a commendable history behind them, having been founded by three of the world's most celebrated aviation pioneers,
Orville and Wilbur Wright and Mr.
The Living Legends of Aviation organization was founded on December 17, 2003, exactly 100 years after
Orville and Wilbur Wright took their first powered flight, with the purpose of celebrating aviation's second hundred years.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were engineers, inventors and aviation pioneers.
Few people have had greater influence on modern transportation than
Orville and Wilbur Wright. And while most people know the basic story of these two brothers from Ohio who are credited with inventing and building the world's first airplane, The Wright Brothers by David McCullough provides a much more personal and comprehensive account of their story.
The Ohio measure responds to a 2013 Connecticut law honoring aviator Gustave Whitehead as flying in 1901, two years ahead of Dayton residents
Orville and Wilbur Wright.
THE TOPIC: The story is familiar, at least in broad brushstrokes: brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wright, Dayton, Ohio, bicycle-shop owners, rose to the pinnacle of the aviation world--a world of their own creation--with their successful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in December 1903.
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ORVILLE and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who built the first airplane, operated a small bike repair shop in Dayton, Ohio.
Roach, a historian, traces the history of the Wright Company, founded by
Orville and Wilbur Wright in Dayton, Ohio, in 1909 to manufacture their airplanes, prosecute patent infringements, and train aviators.
On December 17, 1903,
Orville and Wilbur Wright completed their first powered 'heavier-than-air' flight over the sand dunes outside Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Quotations from astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter, Civil War General James Longstreet and inventors-of-the-airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright, as well as others, are mixed with the poet's voice, which serves to both amplify these other voices and to ground them.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were granted a patent for a "flying machine" on May 22.
Both
Orville and Wilbur Wright are household names because their imagination and technical abilities allowed them to lay claim to the first manned powered flight--a rather impressive feather to have in one's cap.
