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witch most likely describes a nonfiction account of the wright brothers development of the first airplane ?

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Kitty Hawk

On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. The Wrights used this stopwatch to time the Kitty Hawk flights.

They were mechanically inclined young men who were inspired by the efforts of others. In 1878, the brothers' father, Milton Wright, brought home a rubber band powered toy helicopter. In later years, Orville accredited this childhood toy as being the object that sparked their interest in flight

Wright Flyer II

In 1904–05, the brothers developed their flying machine to make longer-running and more aerodynamic flights with the Wright Flyer II, followed by the first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer III.

the Wright Brothers

Still, few are remembered so well or mentioned so often as the Wright Brothers, whose "Flying Machine" was the first powered airplane to execute controlled and sustained flight. They did it on Dec. 17, 1903. The pilot was Orville, since Wilbur had taken his turn in a failed previous attempt.

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Yes, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered aircraft flights at Kitty Hawk on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Dec. 17, 1903.

The Wright brothers sold the plane for $30,000. The Wright brothers' extraordinary success led to contracts in both Europe and the United States, and they soon became wealthy business owners. They began building a grand family home in Dayton, where they had spent much of their childhood.

The first airplane was made of wooden beams with canvas stretched over them. The plane had two horizontal wings that were parallel to each other. Behind the wings were two propellers that pushed the plane through the air. The plane also included two rudders, which the pilot could control by using a system of pulleys.

The Wright brothers also did a great deal of studying on the flight of birds. They observed that birds soared into the wind and that the air flowing over the curved surface of their wings created lift. ... Due to the lack of power from the engine, the idea of wing warping needed to be used to produce extra lift.

Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.

1908: During flight trials to win a contract from the U.S. Army Signal Corps, pilot Orville Wright and passenger Lt. Thomas Selfridge crash in a Wright Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia. Wright is injured, and Selfridge becomes the first passenger to die in an airplane accident.

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