Wright Brothers

Have you ever heard about the Wright Brother's? These brothers built the first planes in the world! It was something they thought of to get around the world easier. Do you know when they built the first plane.Well i will tell you the Wright Brothers are boys they loved to build stuff and they where home schooled by their parents.

Wilbur Wright was born in April 16, 1867 and his younger brother Orville was born in August 19,1887. They lived most of their life in Dayton, India. Their father was a bishop at the church of United Brethen. Wilbur and Orville Wright were home schooled by their parents. One day they brought their plane to Kitty Hawk in South Carolina. That's when they made planes for the military.

By the end of 1903 the Wright built a powered flying machine for less than $2,000. In August 1909, the Wrights reached a contract with some wealthy men in Germany. They formed the German-Wright Company. Later last year, they formed the Wright Company in New York City to manufacture airplanes. The brothers earned some money from their companies. But they were troubled by imitators, infringements on their patents, conflicting claims, and lawsuits. In 1910, the Wrights established a flying school. Students at the school included such famous aviators as Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, Walter Brookins, and Marjorie Stinson. The Wright brothers also formed their own team of exhibition pilots. The team demonstrated their airplane all over the country

Wilbur died of typhoid on May 30, 1912. He died just as the airplane was making progress. Orville worked alone. In 1913 Orville won an aviation award called the Collier Trophy. Orville won the trophy for developing a device called the automatic stabilizer. Orville continued work on the development of aviation in his own shop, the Wright Aeronautical Laboratory. In 1929, he received the first Daniel Guggenheim Medal, an aeronautics award, for his and Wilbur's contributions to flight. Orville died on Jan. 30, 1948.

Wilbur was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in New York City in 1955. Orville was elected in 1965. They were the first two individuals named to the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1962. Orville had sent the brothers' original plane flown near Kitty Hawk to the Science Museum in London in 1928. The Science Museum returned the plane to the United States in 1948. It is now in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The Kill Devil Hills Monument National Memorial in North Carolina became the Wright Brothers National Memorial in 1953. The reason I chose the Wright Brothers is because they where the first persons to build a plane and I look up to them as my favorite history people. I want to be just like them when I grow up and do what I love which is building. That's why I chose the Wright Brothers as my hero.