The Wright Brothers Made the First Powered Flight

The Wright brothers, to whom we owe the ability to travel wherever we want by air these days. They made a vital discovery years ago.

However Why wasn’t such an important achievement applauded?

The Wright brothers thought they needed to learn to fly before designing a powered airplane.

For this reason, they first started working with a kite and a glider, known as an engineless aircraft similar to a plane, that flies by taking advantage of air currents. However, the first gliders It did not produce the lifting power they expected.

The next year, they designed a larger model to test, but it performed even worse. Meanwhile, the brothers conducted countless experiments, He studied and tested approximately 200 different wing shapes in a wind tunnel.

These tests would allow them to find the most effective wing shape.

Wright brothers, your biggest problem how to control the plane in the air He realized it was. For this reason, the only thing they focused on was finding methods to ensure the balance and control of the aircraft during flight.

Following on from his designs, a rudder that can be moved by the pilot in the same way as wings they added. When the last glider tests took off successfully, they created the world’s first fully controllable flying machine.

The first flight took place in 1903 at Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina.

The brothers made two flights each that day. Orville Wright Its first flight lasted 12 seconds and covered a distance of 40 meters. He made it through. Wilbur Wright managed to fly 275 meters in 59 seconds.

However, there were only 5 witnesses to these first flights, and the news broke the next day. appeared in quite a few newspapers. Meanwhile, the brothers made many more flights in different regions, but the interest did not fade away.

All those flights near Dayton, Ohio, were not enough for people to accept the invention of the airplane.

That being the case, Wilbur Wright, took one of the planes they built to France and there he made a public flying demonstration.

Meanwhile, Orville Wright was organizing similar shows in the USA. However, the reason for the lack of interest in all these developments is that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, people was that he had a pessimistic view of flying like birds.

The press was saying that it would take many years for this to be accepted. But history has proven them wrong. Wright brothers, aviation in many different forms, from passenger to cargo transportation, in the 20th and 21st centuries. laid the foundations.

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