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The experience in their printing shop and later in making bicycles sharpened the mechanical genius of the Wright brothers' minds. They worked long hours to figure a way that was mathematically possible to keep a craft airborne. I found this page of notes from their figuring very intriguing . . . although I have absolutely no idea what it means! The brothers built their first plane in 1899 based on this theory and tested it in Dayton. It worked surprisingly well. Taking off on this experiment, they designed a much larger glider in 1900. However, it was a step in the wrong direction: very awkward and difficult to control. A bit discouraged, the Wrights persevered and built yet a new design. Then, of course, it was off to Kitty Hawk to make history.
1 comment:
Wow, in their own handwriting. Now it's all done on computers.
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