• 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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    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 airplane...
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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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    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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    followed in 1905 by the first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer III. The brothers' breakthrough invention was their creation of a three-axis...
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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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  • 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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    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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    sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight". By 1905, the Wright Flyer III was capable of fully controllable, stable flight for substantial periods...
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  • Santos-Dumont was the first successful aviator, discounting the Wright brothers' claim because their Flyer took off from a rail, and in later flights would sometimes...
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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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  • motorboat. June 23 - Wright Flyer III first flight. July 14 - Orville Wright has a serious crash with Wright Flyer III, upon which the Wright Brothers radically...
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    When they next visited Kitty Hawk in 1908 to test their improved Wright Flyer III, Outer Banks weather had taken its toll: the storage shed and glider...
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    powered flight". By 1905, the Wright Flyer III was capable of fully controllable, stable flight for substantial periods. The Wright brothers credited Otto Lilienthal...
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    literature Wilbur Wright made a breakthrough in aviation by keeping an airplane aloft for more than half an hour, piloting the Wright Flyer III for 39 minutes...
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    Freedom: Stories of Courage and Sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces Flyers. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-62846-217-3. Francillon 1979...
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    in 1893. The Wright brothers became enamored with the toy during a lull in a trip to France they had taken to market their Wright Flyer III airplane. The...
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  • vessels such as the frigate HMS Enterprise, hot air balloon Montgolfier, Wright Flyer III, Spirit of St. Louis and Bell X-1, as well as the Lunar Module Eagle...
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    Carillon Historical Park (category Wright brothers)
    education presentations. The John W. Berry Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center houses the 1905 Wright Flyer III, the world's first practical airplane. The...
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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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  • Wilbur Wright Flyer III October 5, 1905 38.95 km (24.2 miles) USA Wilbur Wright Flyer III October 5, 1905 15 m (50 ft) USA Wilbur Wright Flyer III September...
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    Recreated workshop from the Wright Bicycle Shop where the brothers conducted research into aviation. The Wright Flyer III, now in Carillon Historical...
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  • Boer Republic's right to self-determination. 1905 – The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes...
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  • 39.725907°N 84.202073°W / 39.725907; -84.202073 (Wright Flyer III) Montgomery 1905 Wright Flyer III airplane 74 Colonel Charles Young House More images...
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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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    James Lovell, and Judith Resnik were all natives of Ohio, as were the Wright Brothers. Oregon: Oregon's design features a scene of Crater Lake and Wizard...
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  • York, and Pennsylvania each contain multiple sites (with the Frank Lloyd Wright site spread across six states). There are also two transboundary sites that...
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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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    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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