Thank you Orville and Wilbur Wright for inventing the airplane and teaching the world to fly 114 years ago...
On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers are credited with inventing 3 axis
controlled heavier than air powered flight... between 1903 and
1908 they were the *only* humans on this planet up in the air flying
on a daily bases... they were up to the duration of 1.2 hours and
could fly figure 8s... the Wrights wanted to sell airplanes over seas
but when the French read their claims they challenge those braggart
Wrights to prove their claims... because in 1908 the best French
flyers were only hopping a couple of hundred feet in a straight
line... any attempt at a turn was met with a crash... well the Wrights
not only proved their claims they taught the French all about 3 axis
controlled flight... Bleriot bought into the Wright Brothers wing
warping patent and crossed the English channel with in 6 months... the
aileron ( French for little wing) was invented to side set the Wrights
wing warping patent... you could not have 3 axis control flight
without some form of lateral control be it warp or aileron... it was
all going to be settle in court in the Wrights favor but with the
advent of WW1 meant all patent rights were pooled for National
Security... the Wrights got nothing for their discovery but the world
learn to fly from their idea...
The day Wilbur Wright demonstrates, to the skeptical French, 3 axis control
flight in 1908... not to mention a working catapult and how to carry passengers
On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers are credited with inventing 3 axis
controlled heavier than air powered flight... between 1903 and
1908 they were the *only* humans on this planet up in the air flying
on a daily bases... they were up to the duration of 1.2 hours and
could fly figure 8s... the Wrights wanted to sell airplanes over seas
but when the French read their claims they challenge those braggart
Wrights to prove their claims... because in 1908 the best French
flyers were only hopping a couple of hundred feet in a straight
line... any attempt at a turn was met with a crash... well the Wrights
not only proved their claims they taught the French all about 3 axis
controlled flight... Bleriot bought into the Wright Brothers wing
warping patent and crossed the English channel with in 6 months... the
aileron ( French for little wing) was invented to side set the Wrights
wing warping patent... you could not have 3 axis control flight
without some form of lateral control be it warp or aileron... it was
all going to be settle in court in the Wrights favor but with the
advent of WW1 meant all patent rights were pooled for National
Security... the Wrights got nothing for their discovery but the world
learn to fly from their idea...
The day Wilbur Wright demonstrates, to the skeptical French, 3 axis control
flight in 1908... not to mention a working catapult and how to carry passengers