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Taking a Look at the Wright Brothers

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The Wright Brothers This paper is on The Wright Brothers; it is about their life all the way to the death. The Wright Brothers as I’m sure you know seeing as you’re the aerospace teacher where the first people to fly a plane. I believe that with out the Wright Brothers where two of the most important inventors in history. With out the invention of the plane, world war one and two would have been very different and with out planes who knows what would have happened the Germans could have won the war and the whole world would have been different then. I hope you enjoy this paper and I hope that you learn a lot about the Wright Brothers that you didn’t know before you read this paper. “On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet.” (Eyewitness to history.com) Where They Are from The Wright brothers where born in Millville Indiana. Wilbur Wright was born in 1866 and Orville Wright was born in 1870. Their father Milton was a minster in the Church of united Brethren in Christ. The Wright family moved to Dayton so their family could edit the Church newspaper published there. The wright family stayed there until 1878, they moved because their father had been elected bishop from Dayton they moved to Iowa. The Wright

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