How did the Wright brothers change the world?

Author: Heather Whipps
It was an event that lasted only 12 seconds and only appeared in four newspapers the next morning. The avant-garde aircraft with a flight range of 120 feet through Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, may have taken off unobtrusively at that time in 1903, but it did not bring huge applications to its full extent. world.

The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, although they did not invent the aircraft, they became the internet system of the era with the invention of an unprecedented aircraft with control and engines, heavier than air, manned as well as bring initiatives together. Only in the next few decades, their scientific and technical foundation became a tool in the war, bringing the world to the map and bringing people to the moon.

Wilbur is a passionate person, not a weirdo

The aviation science industry was not in the laboratory of a prestigious university but the room behind a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio.

The passion for aviation really exploded in the nineteenth century, when technology finally caught up with the centuries-old passion for human flights. Some scientists tested roller coasters in the 1800s, perfecting the figures of running and pulling, but none of the gliders were powered by machines, but because of the wind, they lifted it. A steam-powered roller coaster driven by Henri Giffard successfully took off in 1852, marking the period many people now call the birth of aircraft-operated machines.

In 1899, Wilbur wrote a letter to the Smithsonian Institution offering copies of all past research.

Below is an excerpt from the above letter and translated as follows:

Dear Sir,
I am a passionate person but not an eccentric person. I have some theories to design a reasonable flying machine. I want to make use of all that is known, then if possible I will contribute a small part of my effort to help future engineers achieve ultimate success. '

With funding from the sales of a bicycle shop, Wilbur (the planner) and Orville (engineer) began to build a flying machine. The brothers began with the work of making kites based on the flight mechanism of the birds they had observed, and then improved into manned gliders.

Four years after Wilbur's humble letter was sent, the Wright brothers were ready to test the first engine and propeller plane.

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On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers Flyer became the first motorized aircraft to fly a continuously controlled flight.(Photo: NASA)

On December 17, 1903, Orville climbed into the cockpit of the aircraft, then named 'Flyer' and took off from the ground at Kitty Hawk on the previous ballot. It flew about 12 seconds before landing after a thud at 120 feet away. The brothers were able to fly four times that day, the last time the plane swung 852 feet in nearly a minute, thereby bringing the world to an era of eternal aviation.

From Kitty Hawk into space

When news of the feat at Kitty Hawk spread everywhere, the Wright brothers immediately became famous. The reaction in the scientific world at that time was also very fast with competing inventors trying their best with flying machines in corn fields around the world.

The US government encouraged the first large-scale aircraft production, at which point the industry was considered a potential power weapon as well as a potential reconnaissance means. When the First World War broke out in 1914, a new battle broke out for the first time in a millennium. Aviation technology rapidly advanced in the war and was also the pillar of the war economy.

Until the 1930s, the United States had four routes carrying millions of passengers , mostly upper class passengers, to locations across the country, the Atlantic, and Pacific destinations. at the end of the decade. With the flourishing of commercial aviation services, the world has opened a new path to allow people to visit places where they are known only through books and newspapers.

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Heather Whipps is a freelance author granted a degree in anthropology by McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

The aviation industry also had a major impact on the outcome of the Second World War and vice versa. The plane carrying soldiers parachuted through the sea of Mang So, and it also dropped the first atomic bomb. Until the end of the war, the aircraft manufacturing industry helped bring the United States to the leading economy after the war , while maintaining its position until the 1970s.

People keep going up. The era of jet aircraft was born in the 1950s, then the first human footsteps on the moon, or Richard Branson's newly proposed commercial space tourism industry. All have roots from Kitty Hawk.

In less than 100 years, the Wright brothers' weak aircraft turned into a means of exploring endless space.

Update 15 December 2018

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