Wright Brothers

Aviation Pioneers
NAME OF AVIATORDESCRIPTION
Wright Brothersknown as the Wright brothers, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The brothers were also the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.

  • ORWILLE AND WILLBUR WRIGHT ARTIFACT
  • WRIGHT BROTHERS STATEMENT
  • WRIGHT BROTHERS
  • SMITHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE
  • BIRTHPLACE OF AVIATION
  • LABORATORY TEST 1901
  • WRIGHT BROTHERS MEMORIAL-KITTY HAWK
  • FIRST FLIGHT WRIGHT BROTHERS MUSEUM KITTY HAWK , NORTH CAROLINA

  • FIRST FOUR FLIGHTS
    WRIGHT BROTHERS MUSEUM
    KITTY HAWK , NORTH CAROLINA

  • FIRST FOUR FLIGHTS
    WRIGHT BROTHERS MUSEUM
    KITTY HAWK , NORTH CAROLINA

  • WRIGHT BROTHERS BICYCLE PARTS
    SMITHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE
    WASHINGTON DC

  • WRIGHT BROTHERS BICYCLE
    SMITHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE
    WASHINGTON DC
  • HORSEPOWER AND PROPELLER WRIGHT FLYER
  • BICYCLE PARTS
  • PROPELLER ARTIFACT
  • COLLEGE PARK
  • COLLEGE PARK
  • WRIGHT FLYER ENGINE
Wilbur Wright
Orville Wright