Early Flight: the Wright Brothers

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Early Flight the Wright Brothers

• By
• Erin, Sierra, and Renee

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Meet the Wright Brothers

• Orville

• Wilbur

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The First Glider

• Not used for manned flight but more as a kite
  that helped the Wright Brothers invent the
  airplane

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Specifications for flyer

• Gasoline powered engine weighing 179 lbs.,
  delivering 12 horsepower
• 2 propellers each 3.5 ft. in diameter
• made of 3 layers of 1 1/8 in. spruce,
• Glued together and shaped with a
• Hatchet and Drawshave
• Wingspan 40 ft. 4 in.
• Chord 6 ft. 6 in.
• Wing camber 120
• Total wing area 510 sq. ft.

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Specifications of flyer continued

• Horizontal Rudder (forward) 48 sq. ft.
• Distance from nose to tail 21 ft. 1 in.
• Un manned weight 605 lbs. ( engine, propellers,
  and chain drive)
• Wing skeleton covered with French sateen fabric
• Propeller shafts made of steel

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Lift Off

• December 17, 1903 the world changed forever. The
  first manned flight took off at Kitty Hawk this
  day. The Wright brothers accomplished their dream
  of flight. This flight covered 12 ft.

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Other Flights of the Brothers

• Flyer 2 went as far as ½ a mile
• They could now fly in circles with their new
  flyer
• In October of 1905 Wilbur flew his 3rd flyer, he
  flew for 39 min. covering 24 miles. He could have
  gone longer but he ran out of gas.

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Proving to the World

• Many people didnt believe that the Wright
  brothers actually achieved flight. There for they
  wouldnt patent their plane. Many people wanted
  proof!!

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Proof!!

• Many People went to watch the brothers fly their
  aircraft. This allowed them to get a patent
  because people took pictures. There for the
  president believed them. They patented their
  aircraft on May 22, 1906.

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Becoming Heroes

• Wilbur and Orville Wright changed the world
  forever. Without them their would probably not be
  any air travel at all. The Wright brothers found
  a way to achieve what most people thought to be
  impossible.

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Bibliography

• www.first-to-fly.com
• The Wright brothers aeroplane company website.
• http//firstflight.open.ac.uk
• This website had simulation flights
• www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers
• We learned of the different planes on this
  website
• www.fi.edu/flights
• We learned about their first flights
• www.history.com
• We received many images from this site