"The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies." -
Wilbur Wrightbank, and turn, that
Wilbur Wright executed the tight and low
This was so disquieting, in fact, that at the end of the 1901 season a disheartened
Wilbur Wright declared, "not within a thousand years would man ever fly!" In fact, Wilbur's may have been an optimistic opinion for the time.
Orville and
Wilbur Wright, sons of Milton Wright, a bishop in the United Brethren Church, changed the way we think about and interact with our world.
Not well, not far, but enough to make history in a 120-foot, 12-second ride that carried Orville and
Wilbur Wright into history 100 years ago today as the world's first inventors and pilots of a powered heavier-than-air craft.
* Orville and
Wilbur Wright invented and flew the first power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine in 1903.
Wilbur Wright had written after the discouraging results In 1901 that man would not fly for a thousand years.
All this while the Wrights had been working in secrecy--but on hearing of Santos-Dumont's achievement,
Wilbur Wright wrote to Captain Ferber of the Aereo Club of France:
The Wright Flyer built by Orville and
Wilbur Wright was the first to achieve what had previously been only dreamed about or sketched on paper: a successful flight of a heavier-than-air craft powered by an internal combustion engine.
After all, it was a celebration honoring the achievements of hometown boys Orville and
Wilbur Wright, who built their famous plane in their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop.
WHY: Without Orville and
Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Ohio, you'd spend your vocations in a care screaming "Are we there yet?"
Circuit Court, Western District of New York, Orville and
Wilbur Wright submitted an affidavit in the case of Orville and
Wilbur Wright vs.