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the wright brothers by ryan gaudio

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the wright brothers were well known for building the very first successful air craft or as they said back then heavier than air craft even though the wright brothers were not super smart scientists they were able to conquer flight the brothers built a wind tunnel and measured the correct designs so the plane could fly.

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the wright brothers first owned a printing press and then they owned a successful bicycle business that served them well their background with designing and building machinery and bicycles helped them with their interest in

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building the glider as young children wilbur and orville looked to their mother for mechanical expertise and their father for intellectual challenge.

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okay since i ve got that covered i will now be starting my interview ryan so wilbur i understand you and your brother orville built the first successful airplane called the glider wilbur yes we did but many other men experimented with the wonders of flight before we did.

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ryan is it true that you both were in the bicycle business orville yes we were actually before that we owned a printing press

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down and then we owned a very successful bicycle business having that background helped us with the design of the machinery for our glider.

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ryan how did you gentleman become interested in flying wilbur in 1878 when orville and i were ages 7 and 11 our father brought us various souvenirs and trinkets he found during his travels for the church one such trinket a toy helicopter sparked our interest in flying the toy was made out of cork bamboo and paper with a rubber band to twirl its twin blades we worked for years to build one that worke d but the

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bigger we made them the less well they flew soon we got mad and we turned to kites ryan so what made you regain your interest in flying orville in 1896 german aviator otto lilienthal down died in a glider crash but his work showed that manned flight was possible french

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aviation researcher octave chanute collected data and brought together young aviators to experiment with gliders on the sand dunes at the lake michigan shore that made us interested in flying again and we set about to learn everything we could about flying gathering and reading whatever we could and later designing experiments of our own.

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ryan i know this is changing the subject and all but just out of curiosity when were you guys born wilbur well i was born on april 16 1887 on a farm 8 miles from new castle in di a n a o r vi ll e a n

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d i was born on august 19 1871 in dayton ohio.

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ryan okay now back to flight ryan wait sorry just another quick question how many other family members do you have both well we have two we have a sister named katharine right then we have our father down milton wright was from an english

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and dutch descent ryan what about your mother wilbur um she died her name was susan ryan oh i m so sorry wilbur it s fine.

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