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    rubber bands to turn a small propeller. Wilbur and Orville played with it until it broke, then mad sold toys to their friends, THEY BELIEVED THEY COULD FLY BY C.S. Frye Up, up, and away! The toy helicopter soared above Orville and Wilbur Wright. Rubber bands twirled the blades of the cork and bamboo toy shooting toward the ceiling. They held their breath, as they tracked it with their eyes. Then it fluttered down, down, down. Orville and Wilbur played with the toy their father had given

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    Just as the locomotive made the world a smaller place in the nineteenth century, the airplane did the same for us in the twentieth century, shrinking our planet to the point that a person could fly anywhere in the world in a matter of hours. Not only have they made travel quick and safe, but aircraft provide many other services as well: from crop dusting and fighting forest fires to overnight delivery of packages and chasing hurricanes. They have also revolutionized warfare, turning battle into a

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    invented powered aircraft was the 1903 Wright Flyer; the Wright brothers patented their plane and kept others from making recreations or innovations of it. The Wright Flyer used a wing warping design to steer the aircraft. It was not until later in 1911 the Curtis Pusher was created from the same design, but the only difference was that it used ailerons and rudders to steer the aircraft, thus creating a new innovation towards early aviation and broke the patent the Wright brothers had. This gave us a step

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    Basically, posters and flyers are: printed sheets, which are posted in a public area or private workplace (Hampton, n.d.). The flyer’s look is the most important aspect because it will attract the people attention to read it. Additionally, posters and flyers section is divided into two groups, which are preparation and distribution group. Pinky, Hehe, and Hui is the preparation group and Habel, William and I belong to distribution section. In order to create an attractive poster and flyer the preparation

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    Orville and Wilbur Wright were no exceptions to this. In their quest for manned mechanical flight these two men would shock the world of flight with their new provoking ideas. The wright brothers would go on to design the first sustainable automated craft. The Wright brothers were arguably the greatest innovators of the 20th century and would go on to transform man’s dream of flying and have a long-lasting effect on flying machines a In 1867 Wilbur wright was born the third of seven wright children. Wilbur

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    Topic 1 - Pioneers Anthony Fokker, discuss his contributions to the development of aviation during and after World War One. Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, born in the Dutch East Indies, in what is now Indonesia in 1890. However, the Fokker family soon moved back to their native Holland, where Anthony received his early primary and early secondary education. Presumably, it was in these early years that Fokker became intrigued by flight. “By the time he was 20 years old, while still in Germany

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    Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio, on August 19, 1871, while Wilbur was born on April 16, 1867 in Millville, Indiana. Orville Wright was considered the main genius behind designing the airplane. Neither of them attended college, Wilbur did not go because of a skating accident that he had, and both of them had to earn money after their mother’s death. Their heavier-than-air plane was made with eight years of research, and one-thousand dollars. The brothers were inventors throughout their entire

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    On December 17th, the brothers were ready to fly their plane again. At 10:00 a.m. the brothers put up a signal for the men in the lifesaving station to get ready for them to fly again. “When we got up a wind of between 20 and 25 miles was blowing from the north. We got the machine out early and put up the signal for the men at the station (McCullough, 85).” It was now Orville's turn to try to fly their airplane. The first flight lasted about twelve seconds and went a total of one hundred twenty

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    more about Wind and Weather. But science wasn’t the only thing kites help, but the also assisted the thinking process of great inventors, those brilliant minds of Sir George Cayley, Samuel Langley, Lawrence Hargrave, Alexander Graham Bell and The Wright brothers all used Kites to invent which ended up becoming the airplane. So without Kites, these brilliant Inventors of their time wouldn’t have been able to create such marvelous

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    airplane but there was two people that made the first airplane that ever was made. Their name was the Wright brother, or Wilbur and Orville Wright. The Wright brother were like ordinary people that wanted to make a difference so they started working on airplane. The name of the first plane that they made kitty hawks. Many airplanes were made out of metal or iron, but the airplane that the Wright brother made was made out of wood and cloth. When they made it they tried it for the first time

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