The story of the Wright brothers inventing the plane

The Wright brothers are the most famous inventors in the 20th century. They were all born in America. 1894, the news that Otto Rilindal successfully tested the glider made them determined to fly. 1896, the crash of Lindahl test flight prompted them to focus on the balance control of the aircraft. They especially studied the flight of birds and studied almost all the aviation theory books at that time. During this period, the aviation industry suffered many setbacks, such as the crash of Pierre, a flight technician, the failure of Ma Keqin, the inventor of heavy machine guns, and the crash of Langley, an aviation scientist. The Wright brothers didn't give up their efforts. Only from 1900 to 1902, apart from 1000 gliding flight tests, they also made more than 200 different kinds of wings and conducted thousands of wind tunnel experiments, which corrected some wrong flight data of Lilindale and designed the cross-sectional shape of wings with greater lift. Finally, in 1903, the first manned plane "Voyager 1" was built. 1903 1 February 14 to 17, Voyager1was on a sand dune in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA. Four test flights were conducted. The first test flight was piloted by Orville Wright, * * * flew 36 meters, leaving it blank 12 seconds. The fourth time, driven by Weber Wright, * * * flew 260 meters and left it blank for 59 seconds. 1906, their plane was patented in the United States. 1909, they won the honorary award of the US Congress. In the same year, they established Wright Aircraft Company. The Wright brothers' great contribution lies in the manned flight realized by engine power and propeller thrust. 1908, the Wright brothers improved the plane. They installed a 22,050-watt engine and modified the chair so that the driver could sit in the middle of the wing to operate. This year, they held an air show in Paris, France, setting a record of continuous flight of 2 hours, 22 minutes and 23 seconds and the flight distance of 1 17.5 kilometers. This was the longest flight time and distance in the world at that time. The air show in Paris is the most successful performance of the Wright brothers in Europe. At the celebration commemorating the 300th anniversary of the discovery of new york, Webb Wright performed another air show. Although the flight time is only a few minutes, it has greatly aroused the enthusiasm of the American public to develop aviation.