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Orville Wright

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

American aviation pioneer who, with his brother Wilbur, designed and built the Wright Flyer. Orville piloted the first of the four flights made on 17 December 1903, covering 120 feet in twelve seconds. He lived to see aviation transformed, dying in 1948, decades after his brother. 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
1871 1
Death Year
1948 1
Nationality
American 1
Connections

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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1. Wikipedia: Orville Wright
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    They were 'Will' and 'Orv' to their friends and in Dayton, and their neighbors knew them simply as 'the bishop's kids', or 'the bishop's boys'.
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Wikipedia: Wright Flyer
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  • Pioneered: Aviation
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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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