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Wilbur Wright

Also Known As The Wright Brothers An epithet for Wilbur and Orville Wright jointly, as they are most commonly referred to. · Will and Orv
Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

American aviation pioneer who, with his brother Orville, designed, built and flew the Wright Flyer, achieving the first sustained, controlled, powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on 17 December 1903. The brothers ran a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, whose tools and mechanical trades funded their early experiments. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1867 1
Death Year
1912 1
Nationality
American 1
Connections

Followed By

Juan Trippe, Figures

Invented

Wright Flyer, Vehicles
Source Wikipedia: Wright Flyer

Pioneered

Aviation, Modes

Why this is disputed. The best documented and most widely credited claim: witnessed, photographed, with a surviving aircraft, and recognized by the Smithsonian Institution under a 1948 agreement. Held debated rather than attested because rival claims exist for Gustave Whitehead (1901) and Richard Pearse (1903); see those figures pioneered-by edges, both held Stance = variant, and the open question first-powered-flight-priority-dispute.

Source Wikipedia: Wright Flyer
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Dissenting Readings (1 dissenting reading)
Pioneered: Aviation

The Wright brothers December 1903 flights are the best documented and most widely credited first powered, controlled flights, but two rival claims predate them: Gustave Whitehead is reported by the Bridgeport Herald to have flown under power in Connecticut in August 1901, and witnesses recalled Richard Pearse flying a powered machine in New Zealand on 31 March 1903, both more than eight months before the Wright Flyer. Neither rival claim has a surviving aircraft, an authenticated in flight photograph, or contemporaneous technical verification, which is why mainstream aviation history and the Smithsonian Institution continue to credit the Wrights; but the newspaper accounts and later witness affidavits mean the record is not as settled as a single credited first suggests.

A dissenting reading, from an independent laneWikipedia: Gustave Whitehead, Wikipedia
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