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Wright brothers

American aviation pioneers

11 dated entries naming Wright brothers, drawn from 10 separate years between 1867 CE and 1948 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Wright Brothers in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1867April 16 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Orville (d. 1912)source
  • 1871August 19 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Wilbur (d. 1948)source
  • 1877November 17 – Frank Lahm, Brigadier General USAF, airship pilot, early military aviator trained by the Wright brothers (d. 1963)source

20th century

  • 1903December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine, the Wright Flyer, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented and successful powered and controlled heavier-than-air flight.source
  • 1905October 5 – The Wright brothers' third aeroplane (Wright Flyer III) stays in the air for 39 minutes with Wilbur piloting, the first aeroplane flight lasting over half an hour.source
  • 1908August 8 – Wilbur Wright flies in France for the first time, demonstrating controlled powered flight in Europe.source
  • 1908September 17 – At Fort Myer, Virginia, Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash. The pilot, Orville Wright, is severely injured in the crash but recovers.source
  • 1909August 2 – The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane, a Wright Military Flyer, from the Wright brothers.source
  • 1910November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight takes place in the United States. The flight, made by Wright brothers pilot Philip Parmalee, is between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio.source
  • 1912May 30 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, of typhoid (b. 1867)source
  • 1948January 30 – Orville Wright, American co-inventor of the airplane (b. 1871)source

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