The Wright brothers

The Wright brothers

The Inventors of the first airplane

Multiple Choice

The Wright brothers were:

• Willbur and Orville

• Willbur and Lawrence

• Orville and Lawrence

• Willbur and George

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The Wright brothers were famous for building the first:

How did everything start????

• Their fathr gave them once a toy helicopter with rubber bands.

• They got excited and started to have an interest for designing and creating things.

• They spent a lot of time obesrving birds flying in the sky. The key to the successful plane building was there!

In order to construct their first plane, what did they make????

• they made wings for the aircraft

• they made propellers that helped the plane move forward

• they made the engine to power their plane

The First Flight

• In december 1903

• 120 feet through the air

• lasted for 12 seconds

The Second Flight

• on a new aircraft named: "Flyer II"

• in November 1904

• lasted for 5 minutes

Why is their invention important?

• people got inspired and had new ideas: they started making new planes that could carry passengers

• travelling became easier and quicker

• people could travel all over the world

• the Wright brothers made the start to a new era for humanity

What happened after the First two flights???

• the two brothers continued building planes: their neext plane could stay in the air for 39 minutes and fly in circles

• they made planes for the US army: aircraft that could fly more than an hour and carry a pilot and a passenger.

• they opened a flight school in Ohio for training pilots to fly

• modern design of plane wings are similar to theirs