Wright Brothers 1867–1948

Notes

The Wright Brothers are Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright. Wilbur Wright’s Person Echo records the years 1867–1912. Orville Wright’s Person Echo records the years 1871–1948. The years on this Group are that span, 1867–1948, taking the earlier birth year and the later death year already stored on those two sheets. It is not one life. With one another they built and flew the first successful powered airplane. That is the achievement already in each brother’s summary. The public record dates the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft to 17 December 1903, in the machine known as the Wright Flyer. Later machines in the same series were the Wright Flyer II in 1904 and the Wright Flyer III in 1905, the last of them described as the first practical fixed-wing aircraft of the series. The brothers’ control insight was a three-axis system, so a pilot could steer and keep the aircraft in equilibrium. This note does not add a field or a town. Each brother remains his own Person Echo, linked below.

External reading:

• Wright brothers — Wikipedia
• Wright Brothers National Memorial
• The Wright Brothers — National Air and Space Museum
• Wilbur Wright — Person Echo
• Orville Wright — Person Echo