Wilbur was a bright and studious child, and excelled in school. His personality was outgoing and robust, and he made plans to attend Yale University after high school. Though most of his injuries healed, the incident plunged Wilbur into a depression. Susan Koerner died in of tuberculosis. In the brothers started their own newspaper, the West Side News.
Wilbur edited the paper, and Orville was the publisher. The brothers also shared a passion for bicycles- a new craze that was sweeping the country. In Wilbur and Orville opened a bike shop, fixing bicycles and selling their own design. Always working on different mechanical projects and keeping up with scientific research, the Wright brothers closely followed the research of German aviator Otto Lilienthal.
When Lilienthal died in a glider crash, the brothers decided to start their own experiments with flight. Determined to develop their own successful design, Wilbur and Orville headed to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina , known for its strong winds.
Wilbur and Orville set to work trying to figure out how to design wings for flight. Wilbur flew their plane for 59 seconds, over a distance of feet, an extraordinary achievement. The Wright brothers soon found that their success was not appreciated by all.
As a result, Wilbur set out for Europe in , where he hoped he would have more success convincing the public and selling airplanes. In France Wilbur found a much more receptive audience. He made many public flights, and gave rides to officials, journalists and statesmen. In Orville joined his brother in Europe, as did their younger sister Katharine.
The Wrights became huge celebrities there, hosted by royals and heads of state, and constantly featured in the press. The Wrights began to sell their airplanes in Europe, before returning to the United States in It was cruder and less powerful than Samuel Langley's, but the Wrights understood that relatively little power was needed with efficient lifting surfaces and propellers.
Such propellers were not available, however. Scant relevant data could be derived from marine propeller theory. Using their air tunnel data, they designed the first efficient airplane propeller, one of their most original and purely scientific achievements. Returning to their camp at the Kill Devil Hills, they mounted the engine on the new foot, pound Flyer with double tails and elevators. The engine drove two pusher propellers with chains, one crossed to make the props rotate in opposite directions to counteract a twisting tendency in flight.
A balky engine and broken propeller shaft slowed them, until they were finally ready on December 14th. In order to decide who would fly first, the brother tossed a coin. Wilbur won the coin toss, but lost his chance to be the first to fly when he oversteered with the elevator after leaving the launching rail.
The flyer, climbed too steeply, stalled, and dove into the sand. The first flight would have to wait on repairs. December 17, Three days later, they were ready for the second attempt.
The mph wind was harder than they would have liked, since their predicted cruising speed was only mph. The headwind would slow their groundspeed to a crawl, but they proceeded anyway. With a sheet, they signaled the volunteers from the nearby lifesaving station that they were about to try again.
Now it was Orville's turn. Remembering Wilbur's experience, he positioned himself and tested the controls. The stick that moved the horizontal elevator controlled climb and descent. It is designed to reduce time at the gate during critical stages for airlines: boarding and deboarding passengers and resupplying the galleys for the next flight.
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