Posted on 12/17/2016 9:27:36 AM PST by heterosupremacist
Wright Brothers Day is an annual United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code and Wright Brothers Day commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier than air, mechanically propelled airplane, that were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The Wright brothers were American brothers, inventors and aviation pioneers.
Orville Wright ( August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948 )
Wilbur Wright ( April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912 )
The Congress, by a joint resolution approved December 17, 1963, as amended (77 Stat. 402; 36 U.S.C. 143), has designated December 17 of each year as “Wright Brothers Day” and has authorized and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation inviting the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
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Can you imagine the permitting process that the Wright brother’s would have needed if they tried something like that today?
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What? A machine that talks?
IMPOSSIBLE!
at Kill Devil Hills is (FFA) First Flight Airport.
I flew in and walked to the Wright Brothers National Memorial
A non towered airport.
The Memorial is quite amazing and well worth going to see.World history at its best.
In 1929, just months before the stock market crash, my dad got his first job out of college teaching at a brand new high school in Detroit. It was named Wilbur Wright. I suppose as a tribute to the innovation of the Wright brothers, I believe the program there began as a work/study one. The students could get practical experience in the burgeoning auto industry while they took tech related high school classes. My dad ended up teaching there for over 40 years.
My Mother was born in 1903.
My Father in 1901.
Just bought it!
OSHA and the EPA would shut them down amid massive fines.
Kudos to your father. I went to a vocational school in Pontiac, Michigan. Paid for and funded by General Motors to encourage youth to persue technical careers in manufacturing. That was in the late 1980’s.
Those programs are no more.
He had graduated from a similar engineering program at the University of Cincinnati, so it was a good fit for him. He also was employed throughout the depression! The school changed a lot while he was there. The Detroit ‘67 riot started just down the street from the school. Fortunately, that happened during summer vacation. The original building was closed a while ago, and the school in now known as Murray-Wright and is located a few blocks away.
It’s quite a story of persistence and dogged determination.
Yes, agree. McCullough’s The Wright Brothers is an outstanding book. I listened to it on audio CD.
It’s a very personal and in depth look at the lives and these self-made maniac-on-a-mission engineers, both of whom only graduated from high school.
Great time to be reading the book because it’s a chronicle of how much be achieved by a couple determined dreamers with almost no money.
All the aeronautical “wisdom” that existed at the time of their success was bogus. They essentially created aeronautical science through their patient building and testing of gliders and the first planes.
At one point they created a “wind tunnel” using hacksaw blades to simulate the wing designs being tested.
The path to Making American Great Again passes through the Outer Banks and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Awesome photo!
And today they buried space hero Icon John Glenn
It is a good picture. Very interesting guys. When Wilbur went to France to selling a license to their airplane technology, the French didn’t understand him at all. He neither drank booze nor mingled with women.
But when Wilbur proved his plane could fly, the French people treated him like a hero. Amazing story.
McCullough’s book is interesting. About a third of the way through the audio program, Orville had made his famous first flight at Kitty Hawk. So most of the book is about what happened after that event.
David McCullough has no peer in the genre.
Never thought a book about the Johnston Flood could be that compelling a read......but McC’s genius manages to do it.
Have got to read the Wright Brothers book.
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