Americans Wilbur and Orville Wright, undoubtedly contributed immensely to the development of aircraft design and aerodynamics.Two brothers whose life circumstances and the ability of joint rational thinking prompted them to create a brilliant break, forever left their names in the history of technology and science.But the opportunity to show their genius they presented immediately.Quite a long time they worked in his shop - shop, where they sold and repaired bicycles (including under its own brand), printing presses, motors and many other technical mechanisms.
In his spare time, the brothers enjoyed reading the various professionals of aeronautics, such as Otto Lilienthal, Octave Chanute, Samuel Langley Pirport and many others that are soon discovered and Wilbur Wright inspired the original idea, which was as follows.After a long observation of the flight of birds, he put forward ingenious in its simplicity hypothesis: "Is it possible to simulate the material forces that use the bird in flight, changing only the position of the wings, without the use of muscle?".Like any hypothesis, she needed proof.At that time there were many enthusiasts, so-called aviation pioneers who tried to create similar models of devices for flight.Particularly inspired by the death of Wilbert Otto Lilienthal glider whose sudden gust of wind overturned and plunged into the ground nose, breaking Lilienthal spine.Lilienthal's last words: "The victims are inevitable," forced to evolve in the direction of Wright's thought on takeoff to the ability of skillful control of the aircraft with maximum safety for the pilot.
brothers started their experiments with the ground, creating different models of kites and other items, mostly made of paper.Further, their work in the studio Wright Cycle Exchange has provided the necessary technical parts and skills to attempt to design aircraft.Wright each time more and more developed his idea, not yet prepared the first drawings of the original aircraft, on the basis of the three axes of rotation of the plane, which, incidentally, is still used today.While prototypes already existed steam engines, but their use in a motor was impossible due to their large weight.But Wilber and Olvila ability to work as a system, the evolution of their ideas brought to the creation of a special propeller and a small fuel engine, which was much smaller than those known at the time the engines, but not inferior to them in power (about 8 horsepower).
historic date became December 17, 1903.In the town of Kitty Hawk, to the so-called outer coast of North Carolina, the Wright brothers' original idea, after more than four years of evolution, finally found its embodiment in the form of an aircraft.Every detail of the machine brothers made their own hands.Invented by them lightweight gasoline engine was connected with two propellers bicycle chains.The machine is operated by air upholstered wing and tail rudder.Steering wheel mounted in the bow used to control the pitch angle.
this day to prepare the machine, Wright helped local rescuers.They nicknamed the flying machine "Flyers".One of them, John Daniels, was commissioned to photograph the "Flyer" in the operation.The first flew Orville, Wilbur stayed with a stopwatch.This first flight, which lasted 12 seconds, so impressed the Wright brothers, that Wilber forgot to stop the stopwatch and Orville was so surprised that I forgot to stop the propeller, but Daniels has done all that is necessary, and it made the first photograph in life has become one of the most famousaviation history.Machine Wright took off!The following flights have been a long 52 and 60 meters with a height of about three meters above ground level.
the same day, the brothers sent the following telegram to his father, the bishop of the Evangelical Church, "the success of the first four flights Thursday morning all against the wind 21 miles average speed through the air 31 miles longest 57 seconds inform press home Merry Christmas".When the telegraph asked if he could pass the news to a friend who works in a local newspaper, the Wright brothers refused, they wanted news of their flight sold from their home in Dayton.But the telegraph, still ignoring the ban, served leak.Soon, his friend, journalist loser E. Moore, who is in desperate search of unique themes for articles published distorted by 99% of the articles, which saved his career.
Thus, the Wright brothers demonstrated by example the power of human thought and its implementation on a global modified form.
