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He was born in Millville, Indiana. He was the third child of Bishop Milton Wright and Susan Catharine Wright.
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Wilbur Wright never graduated from high school.
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Wilbur and Orville decided to open a bicycle repair shop. Soon they were building and selling custom-made bicycles as well as repairing them.
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Wilbur wrote the Smithsonian for literature. It dismayed that so many great minds had made so little progress.
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Wilbur and Orville tested wing-warping the forerunner of ailerons on a 5-foot biplane kite.
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The Wright brothers built a 17-foot glider with an unusual forward elevator.
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To overcome the lift problem, the Wright brothers increased the camber of the glider.
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They gave the glider efficient 32-foot wings and added vertical tails to counteract adverse yaw.
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Orville Wright flew the flider, and It lasted only 12 seconds, and the distance of the flight was less than the length of an airliner.
