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History Of Flight - Information concerning early pioneers in the history of flight, from Chinese flying Kites in 400BC to the first balloon flights. First airplane, first flight, Concorde's last flight and links.
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Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) Inventors and pilots of the First Engined Airplane. Further information, pictures detailing wright brothers plane and links.
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First Flight
Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) Inventors and pilots of the First Engined Airplane.
The Wright Brothers requested a patent application for a "flying machine" nine months before their successful flight in December 1903, which Orville Wright recorded in his diary.
As part of the Wright Brothers' systematic practice of photographing every prototype and test of their various flying machines, they had persuaded an attendant from a nearby lifesaving station to snap Orville Wright in full flight.
The craft soared to an altitude of 10 feet, traveled 120 feet, and landed 12 seconds after takeoff. After making two longer flights that day, Orville and Wilbur Wright sent this telegram to their father, instructing him to "inform press."
Earlier in 1900, Wilbur Wright wrote to French aviation pioneer Octave Chanute (1832-1910) and expressed the belief that "flight is possible to man...[and] I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life".
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| The most relevant links we could find, placed here free |
 First Flight
- The FirstFlight web site is part of a research project concerned with the development of virtual science environments. Hsitory of flight, models, aerodynamics, aero-engines, flyers and more. firstflight.open.ac.uk
First Flight Centennial
- Wright Brothers, Aviation Heritage, Outer Banks, Kitty Hawk North Carolina. www.firstflightcentennial.org
First Flight Society
- Celebrate the Wright Brothers First Flight offering; merchandise, society membership, news, events, first flight shrine and more. www.firstflight.org
Aero-Web.org
- How we made the firstflight by Orville Wright. This is a HTML version of a non-copyright work obtained from The Aviation Education Clearinghouse of the Federal Aviation Administration, also available in Word format. www.aero-web.org
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