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    The Wright Flyer (also known as the Kitty Hawk, Flyer I or the 1903 Flyer) made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled...
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  • The Wright Flyer III is the third powered aircraft by the Wright Brothers, built during the winter of 1904–05. Orville Wright made the first flight with...
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    The Wright Flyer II was the second powered aircraft built by Wilbur and Orville Wright. During 1904 they used it to make a total of 105 flights, ultimately...
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    The Wright Model A is an early aircraft produced by the Wright Brothers in the United States beginning in 1906. It was a development of their Flyer III...
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    at what is now known as Kill Devil Hills. In 1904 the Wright brothers developed the Wright Flyer II, which made longer-duration flights including the first...
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    development Wright 1902 Glider Wright Flyer Wright Flyer II Wright Flyer III Wright Model A Notes The last was a Burgess-Wright Model F. "Wright Modified...
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  • up flyer, flier, or flyers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flyer or flier may refer to: Aircraft pilot, a person who flies an aircraft Flyer (pamphlet)...
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    that the 14-bis, rather than the 1903 Wright Flyer, was the first true airplane. For takeoff the 1903 Wright Flyer used a launch rail and a wheeled dolly...
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    the National Air and Space Museum a few feet from the 1903 Wright Flyer. Source: 1902 Wright Glider - National Air and Space Museum General characteristics...
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    aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display in Bournemouth. He was aged 32. Rolls...
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    from the propeller and four pieces of fabric from the wing of the 1903 Wright Flyer that Armstrong took to the Moon fetched between $112,500 and $275,000...
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    they designed and constructed their gliders and first airplane, the Wright Flyer, which cost under $1,000 to build. The shop closed in 1909 and they started...
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  • to the Wright Flyer III in Wright Hall. The flight around the Statue of Liberty was duplicated on May 26, 2003 by the Dayton 'Wright B Flyer, Inc.' group...
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  • Heaven Burns Red (category Wright Flyer Studios games)
    October 2019, it was announced that Jun Maeda was collaborating with Wright Flyer Studios and Key on Heaven Burns Red. Initially planned to be released...
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    Despite the use of a canard surface on the first powered aeroplane, the Wright Flyer of 1903, canard designs were not built in quantity until the appearance...
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  • of the original 1903 Wright Flyer. 14 July – Orville Wright has a serious crash with Wright Flyer III, upon which the Wright Brothers radically alter the...
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  • (1901–1903) Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome A (1903) The Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer (1903) Alberto Santos-Dumont in the 14-bis (1906) Other notable...
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    National Seashore. The Wrights made four flights from level ground near the base of the hill on December 17, 1903, in the Wright Flyer, following three years...
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    Thomas Selfridge (category Wright brothers)
    was killed while seated as a passenger in a Wright Flyer, on a demonstration flight piloted by Orville Wright. Selfridge was born on February 8, 1882, in...
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  • heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled airplane, the Wright Flyer, that were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina...
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    relations with the press. As Wilbur and Orville's efforts to market the Wright Flyer took them to Washington, D.C., and Europe, Katharine wrote them letters...
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  • Flat, Temuka, South Island, New Zealand. December 17, 1903 – Wright brothers Wright Flyer – First successful piloted and controlled heavier-than-air powered...
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    Daytonians Orville and Wilbur Wright who pioneered heavier than air flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright designed the Wright Flyer I and fabricated many of its...
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    Prairie, Ohio, US Orville Wright Wright Flyer III 00:00:26:11.2 October 3, 1905 Huffman Prairie, Ohio, US Orville Wright Wright Flyer III 00:00:19:56 September...
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  • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (category Cultural depictions of the Wright brothers)
    Capone's troops arrive, prompting Larry and Amelia to escape in the Wright Flyer. They crash into the Smithsonian, where Kahmunrah uses the combination...
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  • Another Eden (category Wright Flyer Studios games)
    is a free-to-play role-playing video game developed and published by Wright Flyer Studios. The game features the collaboration of writer Masato Kato and...
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  • May – The Wright brothers make their first successful flight in the Wright Flyer II. It is the first of 105 flights they will make in the Flyer II during...
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    above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years...
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    The Vin Fiz Flyer is an early Wright Brothers Model EX pusher biplane that in 1911 became the first aircraft to fly coast-to-coast across the U.S., a journey...
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    John T. Daniels (category Wright brothers)
    the Wright brothers flying their Wright Flyer. Daniels, who had never seen a camera before, later said that he was so excited by seeing the Flyer rising...
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