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WRIGHT BROTHERS | Infotainment Video | Series: The Greats | 5 Minute Biography |  Video description: This video is part of the TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT series that highlights the greatest people in history from all walks of life. Each 5-minute short biography covers all aspects of the featured person’s life, including rare videos of them. In this video, we feature Wright Brothers. Discover the remarkable journey of this influential figure and their lasting impact on the world. The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, four miles (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at what is now known as Kill Devil Hills. In 1904 the Wright brothers developed the Wright Flyer II, which made longer-duration flights including the first circle, followed in 1905 by the first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer III.  About TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: Welcome to Trendest Infotainment, your ultimate destination for a diverse range of content that educates, entertains, and inspires! From in-depth celebrity biographies and fascinating history videos to the latest in science and technology, we bring you an expansive collection of infotainment videos. Explore the stories of legendary sports personalities, dive into the history of the World Wars, marvel at wildlife documentaries, and enjoy our informative and funny shorts. There’s something for everyone on Trendest Infotainment!  Subscribe now: www.youtube.com/@UCvtG20NOq0X7l7ru-z1yBhw   #Infotainment #Documentaries #HistoryVideos #ScienceAndTech #CelebrityBiographies   Follow Trendest Media:  • YouTube:  1) TRENDEST MOVIES: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_MOVIES_ENGLISH  2) TRENDEST KIDS: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_KIDS  • Instagram:  TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.instagram.com/trendestinfotainment/  • Facebook: TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.facebook.com/TrendestInfotainment/  COPYRIGHT:  We hold the proper licenses for all videos published on YouTube. For any questions, please contact: mail@trendest.in  AYA Media Private Limited & TRENDEST Media Private Limited are companies registered under the laws of India and located in the state of Kerala, India.

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00:31On the 17th of December, 1903, Orville Wright sent his father, Milton, a telegram.

00:37It said Orville and his brother, Wilbur, had made four successful flights using engine power alone,

00:43and that his father should inform the newspapers.

00:48The Wright brothers had just entered the record books.

00:51Orville and Wilbur both took turns to pilot the Wright Flyer,

00:54and in the process became the first people on Earth to make a controlled, powered flight.

01:01Born into a close middle class family in the Midwestern United States,

01:07the brothers grew up in Dayton, Ohio, towards the end of the 19th century.

01:11When the boys were aged 8 and 12, they were given a toy helicopter powered with a rubber band.

01:17The toy broke, so they built their own.

01:19As young men, the brothers opened their own bicycle sales and repair shop.

01:23The business proved profitable.

01:25America was in the grip of a cycling craze,

01:28and the Wright brothers designed and manufactured some popular bicycles.

01:33The business provided funds for the brothers to indulge in their real passion, aviation.

01:38Their sister, Catherine, took over the business,

01:40so Orville and Wilbur could devote more time to designing flying machines.

01:45Wilbur came up with a plan to use cables to draw the struts and spars of a glider together,

01:50so one side tilted up and the other side down.

01:54Unlike other airplane prototypes, the pilot would actually have control.

01:59Wilbur tested his theory on a box kite.

02:01It worked, so in 1899, he and Orville built a full-sized glider.

02:07They chose the tiny town of Kitty Hawk in South Carolina as the venue for testing,

02:11as the windy area had plenty of wide open spaces and good weather.

02:16Through trial and error, they progressed from flying the glider as a kite to manned flights.

02:21The brothers designed and built their own engine in only six weeks.

02:25The historic 17th of December flight was not recorded as a moving picture,

02:29but this film of the later flight made by the brothers gives a sense of the momentous occasion.

02:34The wind was gusting at 30 miles an hour.

02:37They were flying into that stiff wind.

02:39Orville took off that morning, and at 40 feet, he was off the ground.

02:43The plane, in that stiff wind, was porpoising up and down.

02:46It would go into a dive.

02:50It was difficult for Orville to fly that plane that morning,

02:52but he was determined to stay in the air as far as he could.

02:56He was in the air for 8 seconds, 10 seconds.

02:5912 seconds later, 120 feet from the starting point,

03:03Orville landed that plane here at the number one stone marker.

03:07It was only 12 seconds, 120 feet,

03:09but that was the first time man was able to break those bonds with the Earth with a powered flyer.

03:15The brothers made three more flights,

03:17with Wilbur piloting the flyer more than 800 feet.

03:20For the next two years, they refined their designs,

03:23until developing the Flyer 5,

03:25the first aircraft able to take off and land under pilot control.

03:29The patent they took out in 1906

03:31covered the method of varying wing angle to control an aircraft,

03:35and the brothers fought several court battles against other aviators.

03:38The court cases took their toll,

03:40and Wilbur died of typhoid in 1912,

03:43and the brothers' most famous aircraft, Flyer 1,

03:46is seen today at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.

03:50Before 1903, what you heard people say was,

03:53if God had wanted us to fly, he would have given us wings.

03:56After 1903, what you heard was,

03:59gosh, if we can do that, what can't we do?

04:02Flight had been the definition of the impossible for so long,

04:06that when Wilbur and Orville actually did it,

04:09it seemed to open all sorts of doors to new possibilities,

04:13and shape the history of the century.

04:15The Flyer's label reads,

04:17By original scientific research,

04:19the Wright brothers discovered the principles of human flight.

04:22As inventors, builders, and flyers,

04:24they further developed the airplane,

04:26taught man to fly, and opened the era of aviation.

04:43NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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