What Got the Wright Brothers Off the Ground?

Daniel Eylon, Ph.D.
The Wright Brothers needed a lightweight engine to power their first flight. Several innovations in the late 1800s came together to give them the answer.
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[@eco-beehive]

Fantastic men from Europe!!

[@brostenen]

Look for Ellehammer. You might get a surprise there. 😁 The only reason why it was not recognised, was that there were too few withneses.

[@eddiemanuelnavarrosr.8852]

One of the important the brother's had is the understanding of coefficient of airfoils, that now gave us a better insight of how wing's can generate lift, they are truly the first aircrafts engineer who succeed in a successful flights without doctoral degree in aironautics, and they are just bicycle mechanics. Wow, but now all gov't of the world require any one to become doctorate degree to become successfully employed, Oh! what a heck, doc's plung their ideas

[@ryotaryuu]

12 hp, 201 cid. That is .059 hp per cid. And people today think modern gas engines pollute and inefficient. Lol

[@Robert-pg2id]

This video is plain wrong and I'm surprised a University would publish it. Gustave Whitehead from Bridgeport Connecticut was First In Flight in 1901 in front of 10+ eyewitnesses and a newspaper reporter who filed affidavits about this. Shame on the University of Dayton.

[@battletechfanatic2354]

what got their airplanes (actually they were just gliders) where catapults! According to Wikipedia: "In 1906, the Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont made what was claimed to be the first airplane flight unassisted by catapult[25] and set the first world record recognized by the Aéro-Club de France by flying 220 meters (720 ft) in less than 22 seconds.[26] This flight was also certified by the FAI.[27][28]" An airplane unable to take off by itself is a motorized glider not an airplane. Sorry, Wright Brothers ...

[@chrismofer]

you must not know what a catapult is. they used a falling weight to accelerate the plane up to takeoff velocity quickly, but it was not required for takeoff and obviously it flew fine and for long durations under power, meaning it was not a glider. Sorry, Battletech Fanatic ...

[@6h471]

An uncontrolled hop is not an airplane.

[@rosebritoamorefinanceiro8704]

@@chrismofer Eu quero ver uma réplica do flyer de 1903 voar. Pelo que eu fiquei sabendo, os irmãos Wright só conseguiram voar de vedadade em 1908, depois do Santos Dumont ter feito dezoito aviões do modelo 14 bis, e do Demoisele Enquanto os irmãos Wright tentavam voar escondido, e não queriam dividir com ninguém seus conhecimentos, Santos Dumont ao contrário dos irmãos Wright voava publicamente e dividia com os outros aviadores seus conhecimentos. Pelo que eu fiquei sabendo, os irmãos Wright só conseguiram voar de verdade também, depois que eles foram para a França e adquiriram a planta e o motor utilizado por Santos Dumont. Enquanto Santos Dumont voou publicamente na França em 1906 e 1907, os irmaos Wright só conseguiram voar em 1908 na França, e depois eles ficaram reinvindicando o título de serem os primeiros a voar. Naquela época o governo Francês tava pagando altos cachês para quem conseguisse fabricar um avião e conseguir voar. Se eles tivessem voado em 1903, e 1905, eles deveriam ter ido para França, e voado antes de Santos Dumont, e ter recebido todos os premios, e todos os títulos do governo Francês, porque pelo que eu fiquei sabendo também, nem o governo dos Estados Unidos ficaram sabendo que os irmãos Wright voaram primeiro. Pois se eles tivessem conseguido voar como eles falam, eles deveriam ter recebido todos os titulos em todas as honras do governo dos Estados Unidos. Descupem os irmãos Wright

[@hyzercreek]

Battletech Fanatic According to Wikipedia: "In 1906, the Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont made what was claimed to be the first airplane flight unassisted by catapult[25] and set the first world record recognized by the Aéro-Club de France by flying 220 meters (720 ft) in less than 22 seconds.[26] This flight was also certified by the FAI.[27][28]" This was because they had not witnessed the much longer and much earlier flights being reported by the Wright Brothers. However, the Aero-Club de France and the FAI reversed their decisions in 1908 after they witnessed the flights of Wilbur Wright that August, who demonstrated the vast superiority of his Wright III Flyer airplane which was designed in 1905. Although their 1905 plane was damaged in the spring of 1908, two more Wright III Flyers were built that summer, almost identical to the 1905 plane.

[@kenzeier2943]

O-H-I-O

[@gravedigr12]

it's so cringy when you animate the photos of dead people to talk.

[@Matterhorny]

Why

[@stevelangstroth5833]

Meh, Glenn Curtiss built far superior engines and his planes flew better, took

[@hyzercreek]

Meh, Cessna and Boeing build superior airplanes, they invented it