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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 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 (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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    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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  • the race Ravine Flyer II, a hybrid wooden roller coaster located at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States Wright Flyer II, the second powered...
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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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    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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    Prairie, Ohio, US Orville Wright Wright Flyer II 00:00:01:35 September 20, 1904 Huffman Prairie, Ohio, US Wilbur Wright Wright Flyer II 00:00:00:59 December...
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  • – 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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  • 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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    built and flown in Texas, the "Pliska" (an approximate copy of the Wright Flyer II) was donated to the airport and is displayed in the terminal over the...
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  • September 20 - Wilbur Wright makes the first circuit flight, in the Flyer II. November 9 - Wilbur Wright flies the Wright Flyer II a distance of 3 miles...
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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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    Prairie, Ohio, Orville Wright made the first successful flight in the Wright Flyer II, the first of 105 flights the Flyer II would make during 1904....
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    Huffman Prairie (category Wright brothers)
    testing their Wright Flyer II. The Wrights made about 150 flights at the field in 1904–1905, leading to development of the 1905 Wright Flyer III, which they...
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    Milton Wright (November 17, 1828 – April 3, 1917) was the father of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and a bishop of the Church of the United...
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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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    powered and sustained airplane flights under control of the pilot in the Wright Flyer I on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In the two years...
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    Carnegie Hero Fund. At Huffman Prairie, Ohio, the Wright brothers finished building a shed for the Wright Flyer II, the new, stronger flying machine on which...
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    also Tiger Moths, Sopwith Pup, Bleriot XI and a scale version of a Wright Flyer II and other similar aircraft. For jets it had a Canberra, MiG-15[failed...
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  • tandem glider 1904 Phillips 1904 Multi-Wing Flying machine 1904 Wright Flyer II 1905 Blériot II 1905 Blériot-Voisin Floatplane glider 1905 Ellehammer Monoplane...
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  • semi-prone arrangement with the knees somewhat lowered. During World War II it was suggested that a pilot in the prone position might be more effective...
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    Catherine Koerner Wright (April 30, 1831 – July 4, 1889) was the mother of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and wife of Milton Wright. She gave birth...
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    Wilbur Wright Field was a military installation and an airfield used as a World War I pilot, mechanic, and armorer training facility and, under different...
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    1903 Wright Flyer was so unstable as to be almost unmanageable by anyone but the Wrights, who had trained themselves in the 1902 glider. The Wrights continued...
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    the Wright Brothers' use of the courts to dominate the developing market for powered flight, Pfitzner designed his own aircraft, the Pfitzner Flyer, which...
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  • (Wright Aeronautical) Wright Flyer I Wright Flyer II Wright Flyer III Wright Model A Wright Military Flyer Wright Model A(Transitional Model) Wright Aeroboat...
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  • The New York Times. Retrieved June 26, 2014. Flyer Staff. "50 years of rock-and-roll". Memphis Flyer. Retrieved June 1, 2018. Biography by Keith Brown...
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    airport grounds is a replica of the Wright brothers' Huffman Prairie hangar, containing a museum and replica Wright B Flyer. The museum is open to the public...
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    Wilbur and Orville Wright used an 84-acre (340,000 m2) plot of Huffman Prairie for experimental test flights with the Wright Flyer III. Their flight exhibition...
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