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The Engineering History of Human Flight
For more than a century, humans have soared through the skies here s how we did it.
By Walter J. Boyne and Alex Hollings May 23, 2021 Keith Ferris
When Orville and Wilbur Wright flew at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, they ignited the aeronautical equivalent of the Big Bang. Although it was not apparent at the time, their awkward-looking Flyer contained all of the elements of modern flight including the wings, the engine, the controls, and even the landing gear. The Airplane Origin Story
While the Wright Flyer might look indistinguishable from planes like the super-advanced F-35, a lot of the same principles the Wrights pioneered survived. But it was a long strange, journey to get from point A to point B, and every single piece of today s modern aircraft has an incredible story to tell.
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Buried away in an unused basement room of the Museum of Natural History and Arts on South Street, covered with dust of nearly 20 years, lie the wings and rudders of the Wright brothersâ second successful airplane, the craft of 1905, which was the first to make a flight of more than 10 minutes. These parts are then, according to all available records, the remains of the first heavier-than-air flying machine which carried a man, in existence in the United States today.
Built two years later than the famous first plane, now in a British museum, the 1905 ship came to grief on the sands of Kill Devil hill at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Through the efforts of Charles K. Crane of Dalton, son of the late Zenas Crane, founder of the museum, the parts of the wrecked plane, strewn about near the coast guard station in North Carolina, were collected and shipped to this city. The museum basement has been their resting place, while volumes of correspondence with the inventor, Orville Wright, have been