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The Wright Flyer (also known as the Kitty Hawk, [3] [4] Flyer I or the 1903 Flyer) made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft—an airplane—on December 17, 1903. [1] Invented and flown by brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, it marked the beginning of the pioneer era of aviation.
A Wright engine, serial number 17, c. 1910, on display at the New England Air Museum. In 1903 the brothers built the powered Wright Flyer, using their preferred material for construction, spruce, [61] a strong and lightweight wood, and Pride of the West muslin for surface coverings. They also designed and carved their own wooden propellers, and ...
English: 3D model (STL file) of the 1903 Wright Flyer, the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft, which took flight on December 17, 1903. (Click the "3D" icon to rotate and zoom.) (Click the "3D" icon to rotate and zoom.)
Charles Edward Taylor (May 24, 1868 – January 30, 1956) was an American inventor, mechanic and machinist. He built the first aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer, and was a vital contributor of mechanical skills in the building and maintaining of early Wright engines and airplanes.
The design of the Flyer II was very similar to the original 1903 Wright Flyer, but with a slightly more powerful engine and construction using white pine instead of the spruce they used in the 1903 machine and the gliders of 1900–1902. An important change was reducing the wing camber to 1-in-25 from the 1-in-20 used in 1903. The brothers ...
This compares to the Wright Brothers engine needing almost 7.7 kilograms (17 lb) of engine weight to produce 0.75 kilowatts (1 hp). The U.S. automobile industry after WWII could not take advantage of the high octane fuels then available. Automobile compression ratios increased from an average of 5.3-to-1 in 1931 to just 6.7-to-1 in 1946.
Data from US Army Aircraft 1908–1946 General characteristics Crew: 2 Length: 30 ft 8 in (9.35 m) Wingspan: 36 ft 5 in (11.10 m) Height: 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m) Empty weight: 740 lb (336 kg) Gross weight: 1,263 lb (573 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Wright Vertical 4 4-cylinder water-cooled in-line piston engine, 35 hp (26 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed Painted spruce elliptical propellers, 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m ...
The Wright Flyer III is the third powered aircraft by the Wright Brothers, built during the winter of 1904–05. Orville Wright made the first flight with it on June 23, 1905 . The Wright Flyer III had an airframe of spruce construction with a wing camber of 1-in-20 as used in 1903 , rather than the less effective 1-in-25 used in 1904 .