The story of the Wright brothers invention of the airplane

The Wright brothers are the most famous inventors of the century, and they were both born in the United States. The news of Otto Rindahl's successful test glider made them determined to fly. Lindahl's test flight crash in the year prompted them to focus on the balance of the aircraft.

In particular, they studied the flight of birds, and delved into almost all the books on aviation theory at the time. During this period, the aviation industry suffered setbacks one after another, the flight technician Peel plane was destroyed and killed, the inventor of the heavy machine gun Makqin failed to test the flight, and the aeronautist Langley even took the plane into the water with people, and so on. But the Wright brothers did not give up their efforts.

In the period from this year to the last year, in addition to conducting many gliding test flights, they also conducted thousands of wind tunnel experiments on a number of different wings, corrected some erroneous flight data in Rilindahl, and designed a wing cross-section shape with a large lift. Finally, the first manned aircraft to carry out manned flights under its own power, the USS Flyer, was built on a sand dune in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA. A number of test flights were conducted, the first of which was piloted by Orville Wright, and a total of meters were flown and seconds were left in the air.

The fourth was piloted by Webb Wright, flying a total of meters and empty seconds. year, their aircraft was patented in the United States. They received the U.S. Congressional Honor Award for this year.

In the same year, they founded the "Wright Aircraft Company". The Wright Brothers' great contribution was to enable aircraft to fly manned with engine power and propeller thrust. The Wright brothers improved the aircraft.

They installed a watt engine and modified the seats so that the driver sat in the middle of the wing to maneuver. This year, they held an air show in Paris, France, and set a record of continuous flight hours, minutes and seconds, and a distance of kilometers. It was the longest flight time and distance in the world at the time.

The air show in Paris was the most successful of the Wright Brothers' many shows in Europe. In celebration of the anniversary of the discovery of New York, Webb Wright performed another air show. Although the flight lasted only a few dozen minutes, it greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the American public to develop aviation.

In the wind tunnel, the cross-sectional shape of the wing was tested, and an empirical formula was quantitatively derived. It just so happened that with the experience of gasoline engines and Li Linthal's gliders, the Wright brothers only added a control system, and the aircraft was born.

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