The Early History of the Airplane

Name: The Early History of the Airplane
Author: Orville Wright

by Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by K Nordquist, Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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2008-05-11

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Public domain in the USA.

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Airplanes

About the authors

Orville Wright

1871–1948

A bicycle mechanic from Dayton, Ohio helped change the world by co-inventing the first successful airplane. After the breakthrough flights with his brother Wilbur, he spent decades defending their work and shaping the early story of aviation.

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Wilbur Wright

1867–1912

A quiet, determined inventor helped change travel forever by turning the dream of powered flight into reality. Working closely with his brother Orville, he paired careful experiments with bold test flights that opened a new age in transportation.

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