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* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.
The Wright brothers were the first to fly in a powered and controlled aircraft.
Previous flights were gliders ( control but no power ) or free flight ( power but no control ), but the Wright brothers combined both, setting the new standard in aviation records.
With the information contained in Chanute's book, the personal assistance of Chanute himself, and research carried out in their own wind tunnel, the Wright brothers gained enough knowledge of aerodynamics to fly the first powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.
The Wright brothers ' flight confirmed or disproved a number of aerodynamics theories.
The Wright brothers made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and were distinguished by their ability to control their flights for substantial periods ( more so than the ability to produce lift from an airfoil, which was known ).
The Wright brothers ' famous Wright Flyer III aircraft is housed in a museum at Carillon Historical Park.
* 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Football authority and College Football Hall of Fame coach David M. Nelson wrote that " E. B. Cochems is to forward passing what the Wright brothers are to aviation and Thomas Edison is to the electric light.
Glenn Curtiss, the chief rival of the Wright brothers, was the first to design a flying car.
Kites were also instrumental in the research and development of the Wright brothers when building the first airplane in the late 1800s.
Alexander Graham Bell experimented with very large man-lifting kites, as did the Wright brothers and Lawrence Hargrave.
* 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U. S. patent number 821, 393 for their " Flying-Machine ".
From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.
The feat, if true, exceeded the best of the Wright brothers first powered flights by 540 m ( 1770 ft ) and preceded the Kitty Hawk flights by more than two years, but is not accepted by most aviation historians
Replica of the Wright brothers ' wind tunnel.
The Wright brothers ' use of a simple wind tunnel in 1901 to study the effects of airflow over various shapes while developing their Wright Flyer was in some ways revolutionary.
The Wright brothers flights in 1903 are recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ), the standard setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics, as " the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight ".
The Wright brothers credited Otto Lilienthal as a major inspiration for their decision to pursue manned flight.
The Wright brothers ' Wright Flyer used a biplane design, as did most aircraft in the early years of aviation.

Wright and said
He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.
Miriam Noel Wright said, `` Here I am at my own home, locked out so I must stand in the road ''!!
First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.
`` Take a gigantic knife and sweep it over the Loop '', Wright said.
Miriam sniffed at this, and complained that Wright had said unkind things about her to reporters.
Peter Wright, former senior MI5 officer, said in his 1987 book that Litzi Friedmann was " almost certainly the person who recruited him to the Soviet cause.
" Wright was one of the people who made me conscious of the need to struggle ", said writer Amiri Baraka .< ref >
On learning that Vivekananda lacked credential to speak at the Chicago Parliament, Wright is quoted as having said, " To ask for your credentials is like asking the sun to state its right to shine in the heavens.
The man who killed McGoldrick said that he had planned, along with Billy Wright and Mark Fulton, to kidnap three priests from a parochial house in County Armagh and shoot them unless the march was allowed to continue.
The LVF said it was revenge for the killing of Billy Wright.
The April 25, 1988 issue of The New Yorker carried an interview with retired Air Force Reserve Major General and former US Senator from Arizona, Barry Goldwater, who said he repeatedly asked his friend General LeMay if he ( Goldwater ) might have access to the secret " Blue Room " at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, alleged by numerous Goldwater constituents to contain UFO evidence.
Wright later said of the Kingsmill massacre, " I was 15 when those workmen were pulled out of that bus and shot dead.
Alfred Wright also said God was referred to as " Nanapesa ," " Ishtahullo-chito " or " Nanishta-hullo-chito ," " Hustahli ," and " Uba P < u > i </ u > ke " or " Aba.
" Same reason it couldn't be a film ," Wright said.
Gurdjieff is said to have had a strong influence on many modern mystics, artists, writers, and thinkers, including Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ), Frank Lloyd Wright, Keith Jarrett, George Russell ( composer ), Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Fripp, Jacob Needleman, John Shirley, Carlos Castaneda, Dennis Lewis, Peter Brook, Kate Bush, P. L. Travers, Robert S de Ropp, Walter Inglis Anderson, Jean Toomer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Louis Pauwels, James Moore and Abdullah Isa Neil Dougan.
Will Wright, creator of the Sim series, said he got the idea for The Sims while working on SimAnt.
Peter Cormack, director of London's William Morris Gallery, said regarding the critical neglect of Cram's work that it was " a phenomenon which has significantly distorted the study of America's modern architectural history ... ( Cram ) deserves the same kind of international -- and domestic -- recognition accorded ( all too often uncritically ) to his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright ".
In this case, Lord Wright said:
Stuart A. Wright has said that their political racism however was no different from both Republicans and Democratic politicians of the time.
John Shook has said, " Chauncey Wright also deserves considerable credit, for as both Peirce and James recall, it was Wright who demanded a phenomenalist and fallibilist empiricism as a vital alternative to rationalistic speculation.
An article in the linguistic periodical Word Ways said that 250 of the 500 most commonly used words in English were still available to Wright despite the omission of words with e.
In 1937 Wright said writing the book was a challenge and the author of an article on his efforts in The Oshkosh Daily wryly recommended composing lipograms for insomnia sufferers.
Wright said in his introduction to Gadsby that " this story was written, not through any attempt to attain literary merit, but due to a somewhat balky nature, caused by hearing it so constantly claimed that ' it can ’ t be done.

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