NO TIME FOR BOTH A WIFE AND AN AEROPLANE
NO TIME FOR BOTH A WIFE AND AN AEROPLANE -
AMERICAN AVIATORS WRIGHT BROTHERS
The American inventors of Airplane Wright brothers when asked about wife and family quipped that "No Time for both a Wife and an Airplane".
The Wright brothers remained bachelors in life. They neither gone to college nor married in life.
They had a younger sister Katharine who was instrumental in promoting the airplane invented by her brothers later in Europe. Along with her brothers, she was awarded the Legion of Honor in France.
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The Wright Brothers Wilbur and Orville in the beginning of the 20th Century had invented the airplane.
The Wright brothers invented the first airplane that could be controlled by the pilot. Among their many creations, they built the 1902 Wright glider, which was the first controlled glider with a movable rudder that allowed the pilot to more precisely control yaw, and the 1905 Wright flyer, which was the first practical flying machine.
Wright brothers, American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight (1903). Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867, near Millville, Indiana, U.S. - May 30, 1912, Dayton, Ohio and his brother Orville Wright (August 19, 1871, Dayton - January 30, 1948, Dayton) also built and flew the first fully practical airplane (1905).
Orville Wright (left) and Wilbur Wright in 1910
Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful self-propelled sustained flight on December 17, 1903. The flight lasted 12 seconds, and the aircraft flew approx. 20 feet (6 meters) above the ground for 120 feet (36 meters).
The Wright brothers' first successful self-propelled sustainable flight occurred at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, in 1903. They had previously tested gliders at Kitty Hawk, a village on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Their first experiments with "wing warping," as the system would be called, were made with a small biplane kite flown in Dayton in the summer of 1899. Discovering that they could cause the kite to climb, dive, and bank to the right or left at will, the brothers began to design their first full-scale glider using Lilienthal's data to calculate the amount of wing surface area required to lift the estimated weight of the machine and pilot in a wind of given velocity.
Realizing that Dayton, with its relatively low winds and flat terrain, was not the ideal place to conduct aeronautical experiments, the Wrights requested of the U.S. Weather Bureau (later the National Weather Service) a list of more suitable areas. They selected Kitty Hawk, an isolated village on the Outer Banks of North Carolina which offered high average winds, tall dunes from which to glide and soft sand for landings.
Tested in October 1900, the first Wright glider was a biplane featuring 165 square feet (15 square meters) of wing area and a forward elevator for pitch control. The glider developed less lift than expected, however, and very few free flights were made with a pilot on board. The brothers flew the glider as a kite, gathering information on the performance of the machine that would be critically important in the design of future aircraft.
They updated the airplane in the light of further experiments and paved the way for the modern day airplanes.
Their father Bishop Wright exercised an extraordinary influence on the lives of his children. Wilbur and Orville, like their father, were independent thinkers with a deep confidence in their own talents, an unshakable faith in the soundness of their judgment, and a determination to persevere in the face of disappointment and adversity. Those qualities, when combined with their unique technical gifts, help to explain the success of the Wright brothers as inventors. At the same time, the bishop’s rigid adherence to principle and disinclination to negotiate disputes may have had some influence on the manner in which the brothers, later in life, conducted the marketing of their invention.
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Air India. On 21 February 1960, it took delivery of its first Boeing 707 named Gauri Shankar and became the first Asian airline to induct a jet aircraft in its fleet.
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Aerospace Engineering :
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is similar, but deals with the electronics side of aerospace engineering.
Without Wright brothers the modern Airplanes would not have been possible. With this invention the world has become smaller and air journey saved the travel time across the globe.
World War II necessitated a huge demand for fighter planes.
Modern passenger planes and cargo planes were upgraded subsequently.
Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn a diagram of a flying machine in 1490.
In Indian context, in the epic Ramayana, Ravan abducted Sita in "Pushpaka Vimana" to reach Lanka to his palace.
The pilot manning airplane was engineered by the Wright Brothers.
Wright brothers dedicated their entire life sacrificing wife and offspring to achieve one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind.
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