What Year Was The Aeroplane Invented?
Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) requested a patent application for a “flying machine” nine months before their successful flight in December 1903, which Orville Wright recorded in his diary. It was in the 1800s, that the Wright brothers, working with kites, had worked out the key issue for flight: Control. On the 17th of December 1903 they were successful in producing the world’s first powered flight. Wilbur ran alongside the plane, Flyer, as Orville took off on the sand dunes outside a town called Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, USA. The flight lasted just 12 seconds and travelled 37 metres. This distance is less than the wingspan of a modern airliner, but it was a major accomplishment at the time. On the 8th of October 1908, Wilbur flew their famous plane, Flyer, in front of a large crowd in France. The next day it was all over the French newspapers. Also Visit: History of Aeroplane.
