модель wright flyer iii

the controls, the plane flew 120 feet (37 meters) in 12 seconds. The brothers

world's first flight in a powered, heavier-than-air machine. With Orville at

On December 17, 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they made the

They designed and built their own lightweight gasoline engine for the

(12 meters) long and weighing about 750 pounds (340 kilograms) with the pilot.

the fall of 1903, they had constructed a powered airplane with wings 40.5 feet

soon obtained all the scientific knowledge of aeronautics then available. By

interested in flying. They began serious reading on the subject in 1899, and

the death of pioneer glider pilot Otto Lilienthal in 1896, they became

Even as children mechanics fascinated the brothers. After reading about

first flight in the Wright Flier

                                       вЂ"Orville Wright on the

to lack of experience in handling this machine."

erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly

"The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly

worlds first successful controllable airplane.

16, 1867 on a small farm near Millville, Indiana.

Co-Inventors of the Worlds First Successful Airplane

THE 456th FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR SQUADRON

Wilbur & Orville Wright -1