Wright Brothers

History

Workshop of bicycles

Originating in Dayton in the Ohio, where they have a workshop of Bicyclette S. They learn how to fly with Octave Chanute, then they conceive Planeur S which enable them to develop the principles flight and orders. To improve the bearing pressure of the wings, they build the first Soufflerie in their workshop as of 1901. In 1902, they can make it take off and operate.

First Flyer

They study the problem of the propulsion then and build in their workshop the engine and the propellers. Their first motorized flight proceeds with Kitty Hawk in North Carolina the December 17th 1903, on the apparatus baptized Flyer . To protect the rights on their invention, they make so that few witnesses witness their first flights and seek to work in greatest discretion.

Flyer II

The following year, with a new apparatus, the Flyer II , they manage to carry out a complete circular flight.

Flyer III

The Flyer III of 1905 allows a flight record 38 minute old. In 1906 and 1907, the Wright brothers are devoted to the management of their business, and no flight is carried out, in waiting of the granting of a patent protecting their rights.

Contacting the US Army in 1908, they will have to show their know-how. Orville carries out increasingly spectacular demonstrations on the site of Strong Myers (Virginia), carrying a passenger on several occasions. An incident (rupture of a propeller) will have a tragic consequence: September 17th, 1908 its plane is crushed, the passenger is killed and seriously wounded Orville.

At the same time, to the invitation of the general Company of aerial navigation of Lazare Weiller, Wilbur transported a plane, the “Type” in France and, installed with the Mans since June 15th, the fact of flying as from August 1908, in particular with the Hunaudières (on August 8th in the presence of a hundred people of which Louis Blériot and Rene Gasnier, members of the Aéro-Club of France) and with the Camp of Auvours, close to the Mans where it is lodged by the brothers Amédée and Leon Bollée. Two French pupil-pilots began their formation on the Flyer as of the autumn 1908 with the Camp of Auvours with Wilbur Wright: it was of the count Charles of Lambert and about the captain Lucas-Girardville of the Aerostatic Parc of Chalais - Meudon. The aviator Ernest Zens will be the first French passenger of Wilbur Wright to the Camp of Auvours (September 15th, 1908). Paul Tissandier, present at Mans during three weeks, will be his/her shipmate the 28 following: “Is really there not to believe, will say it. The detractors of the Wright brothers (...) would change opinion immediately if they could (...) like me presently, to fly away in this admirable machine”. Among the people who attend the experiment of the day: Horned Paul, inventor of the Helicopter, Pontoon of Amécourt, Simon Lake, inventor of the Underwater , etc In October, one will notice in the assistance the aviators Farman, Delagrange, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Rene Gasnier and Mrs Pelletier, the first woman who took seat on an airplane. Lastly, on December 31st, Wilbur Wright steals last once in Auvours during nearly 2 a.m., covers a distance of 124.700 km and gains the Michelin Cut. January first, the American aviator begins his starting preparations, Flyer will be dismounted and dispatched with Pau. At the beginning of 1909, with Long Pau-Bridge, the American aviator will complete the formation of Paul Tissandier, this one in its turn will take along its first raises on April 10th: the aeronaut and aviator Rene Gasnier, of Angers, which will obtain its pilot's license aviator on March 8th, 1910. Joined by Orville convalescent of its accident of Strong Myers, it takes again its demonstrations in January 1909 in Pau where they provide the foundations of the flying school. They will make other demonstrations in Italy then will return to the the United States in May 1909.

In 1909, they found the Wright Aeronautical Corporation. Several times amalgamated with other companies, it currently remains in the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.

Orville Wright was prize winner of the Franklin Médaille in 1933.

Anecdote

In 1910 Charles Rolls carries out the first “outward journey return” England - France above the Manche with a Wright Flyer I of the Wright brothers (after the first “crossing” by Louis Blériot on its Blériot XI the July 25th 1909). The same year, it tragically commits suicide on July 12th in a air Meeting above Bournemouth at the 33 years age.

In memory of these two pioneers of aviation, the studios Disney called Wilbur and Orville two albatross of the cartoons the Adventures of Bernard and Bianca and Bernard and Bianca with the country of the kangaroos.

See too

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