Wilbur Wright eventually glided about 100 meters in 1901, but the brothers knew their early prototype was still unpredictable and some of the data they had gathered seemed to be invalid. They designed and built early prototype gliders that they attempted to fly in 19 in Kitty Hawk. They were obsessed with the idea of “piloted” flight. The two brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, were self-taught engineers and bicycle shop owners from Dayton, Ohio. From their beach camp at Kitty Hawk and back home in Dayton, Ohio, the Wright brothers had been experimenting and adapting their flyers for more than four years But what one tends to forget is that this first flight didn’t happen overnight. A likely location for the Wright brothers and their first successful airplane flights on December 17, 1903. Located on a series of barrier islands called the Outer Banks, it is the 6 th windiest place in the USA. 119 years ago this weekend, Wilbur and Orville Wright made history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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