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On the 16th of April, 1867, Wilbur Wright is born.
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On the 19th of August, 1871, Orville Wright is born
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When the Wrights move to Rchmond Indiana, Oriville, at the age of nine takes up kite building
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The Wright Brothers build and fly a bipplane kite in order to test the "wing warping" method of controlling a flying machine, which influences them to continue their research on flying machines.
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The Wright brothers spend somewhere between 700 and 1000 experimental flights and increase their flight of their glider up to over 600 feet in air travel distance
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Wrights conduct experiments with propellers and begin to build their firstfour-cylinder engine.
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Wilbur flies their new powerful plane and manages to do the first turn in a heavier-than-air object and by the end of the day manages to do a full turn.
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The Wrights carry a passenger on a flight for the first time, the passenger, being Charles W. Furnas
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Congressional Medal is awarded to the Wrights by resolution of Congress.
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Sadly, Wilbur Right dies of typhoid fever in Dayton.
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This was the first time the sound barrie was broken with any vehicle.
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Long after Wilbur dies, Orrville dies of a heart attackn Dayton.
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Now, the airplane is used for travelling and if it weren't for the Wright Brothers, the world would not work like it does, we would be very limited to going to other countries and we would not be able to get material from other countries as quick as we can.
