The Wright Brothers

115TH ANNIVERSARY OF KATHARINE WRIGHT’S FIRST FLIGHT With Wilbur piloting the Wright Model A Flyer, the flight in Pau, France, lasted seven minutes and four seconds. Katharine’s skirt being tied down while in flight may have influenced a fashion craze—the hobble skirt. Caption: Pictured are siblings Orville Wright, Katharine Wright and Wilbur Wright. Katharine appears ready for her first ride in an airplane, 15 Feb 1909. Historical image courtesy of Wright State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives. #thewrightbrothers #paufrance #wilburwright #orvillewright #katharinewright #hobbleskirt

115TH ANNIVERSARY OF WRIGHT’S FLIGHTS IN PAU Wilbur flew flights in Pau in February and March 115 years ago. The first flight, lasting five minutes 57 seconds, was on 03 Feb 1909. The series of flights was primarily training flights with his three French students. On 09 Feb 1909, Wilbur flew at Pau for 19 minutes in the presence of Louis Blériot, French aviator. On 03 Feb 1918, dinner arranged by Mayor Alfred de Lassence, with 200 English-speaking guests attending, commemorated the first flight by Wilbur at Pau nine years earlier. Caption: Demonstrations in Pau, France, 1909, flying the Wright Model A over horse-drawn carriages. Wilbur Wright, pilot. Historical image courtesy of Wright State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives. #thewrightbrothers #Pau #wilburwright #orvillewright #flyingmachine #louisbleriot

WRIGHTS HIRE HARRY A. TOULMIN, PATENT ATTORNEY Mid-January 1904, the Wright brothers write to Harry A. Toulmin for appointment to discuss pending patent application. Eight days later, 22 Jan 1904, Wilbur travels?to Springfield, Ohio, to see Toulmin and place?Wright patent case in his hands. Wilbur walks?into Toulmin’s office wanting to patent an airplane and walks?out wanting to patent only the control system. Caption: Wright brothers?granted U.S. Patent 821,393 for a “Flying Machine” on 22 May 1906. Patent focuses on their 1902 glider’s?three axes of flight control: pitch, roll and yaw. Historical image?courtesy of Wright State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives. #thewrightbrothers #wilburwright #orvillewright #harrytoulmin #flyingmachine #uspatent821393

WRIGHTS IMPROVE ON LILIENTHAL’S DATA Caption: Lift balance photo included in 19 Jan 1902 letter to Octave Chanute. Aviation pioneer, Octave Chanute, pursued an extensive correspondence with the Wright brothers. On 05 Jan 1902, Wilbur sends Chanute data sheets resulting from wind tunnel test with instructions for making computations. Follow-up correspondence to Chanute on 19 Jan 1902 includes photograph and description of Wright pressure-testing instrument, that is, the lift balance used in the Wright wind tunnel. These lift balance tests helped determine Otto Lilienthal’s data was off by a value of 0.0017. (Note: The materials used to build the lift balance were readily available in the Wrights’ bicycle shop, e.g., old bicycle spokes.) Historical image courtesy of Library of Congress #thewrightbrothers #wrightcyclecompany #octavechanute #ottolilienthal #liftbalance #airfoil #windtunnel

First flights, 17 December 1903, Kitty Hawk, NC Wright Brothers Day is a United States national observation. It is codified in the U.S. Code, and commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer I, that were made by Wilbur and Orville Wright. “On Wright Brothers Day, we celebrate the bold vision, steadfast determination, and transformative innovation of Orville and Wilbur Wright...” Please visit the White House website (https://lnkd.in/e-SPGeWA) for the complete proclamation from Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States of America. Historical image courtesy of Wright State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives #WrightBrothersDay #firstflight #thewrightbrothers #1903WrightFlyer

Encouraging to have multiple Wright Brothers Day ceremonies across the nation celebrating the 121st anniversary of powered flight. From the Birthplace of Aviation—Dayton, OH—the 88th Air Base Wing hosted the event at Wright Brothers Memorial, Wright Brothers Hill, Wright-Patterson AFB, overlooking Huffman Prairie Flying Field. #WrightBrothersDay #FirstFlight #WPAFB #TheWrightBrothers

The Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet sponsored by Bravo Golf was held in the Eagle Hangar at EAA Air Museum. Paul Dye, the longest-serving NASA flight director, was the keynote speaker. It is always a marvel to hear of the inspiration the Wright brothers had on so many who have taken to the air, and space, since the first flight. #WrightBrothersMemorialBanquet?#BravoGolf?#eaa #eaaairmuseum?#pauldye?#thewrightbrothers #wilburandorville

Thank you to the National Aeronautic Association and its member, the AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON, for 75 years of acknowledging stalwarts in the industry via the awarding of the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy!

125 Years Ago, Wrights Write to Weather Bureau Caption: This initial letter was sent by the Wright brothers to the U.S. Weather Bureau, dated 27 November 1899. From their bicycle shop—Wright Cycle Company—on West Third Street, Dayton, OH, Wilbur and Orville continued their correspondence searching for a secluded place with regular breezes and soft sandy landing surfaces. They received a prompt and friendly reply from the Weather Bureau office in Kitty Hawk, NC, which helped to convince the Wrights that the local sand dunes were the best place to conduct their experiments. Historical image courtesy of Library of Congress #thewrightbrothers?#wrightcyclecompany

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