Air and Space Live Chat: The Wright Brothers

In 1903 the Wright brothers developed and flew the first successful airplane. This chat features Tom Crouch, Wright brothers historian and curator emeritus; and Keith Yourg, the great, great grand nephew of Orville and Wilbur Wright. This chat was recorded on May 21, 2020.

[TheIndyspace]

Hi Tom, I recall seeing you at the 90th anniversary celebration at Kitty Hawk. 😊👍

[deepseadirt]

14:40 that's a great question, what was used as coverings on airplanes. I read that A. V. Roe used 'butter paper' on his early planes like his 1909 triplane.

[shivayadav]

Shivkar bapuji talpade made the first from the book of vimanika shastra in 1895

[kenearle]

, how did they get their gliders off the ground Ken Earle, waseca, minnesota

[auradiana]

Why is the host screaming 😱...relax... couldn't finish...ugh.

[paulmarchlewski]

The wright brothers were wealthy buisness men, sons of a Bishop, who studied the works/designs of the father of aviation Sir George Cayley and Otto Lilienthal, they did NOT invent the airplane, they are only credited with developing the 3 axis control system. The Flyer was a development of Lilienthals gliders, fitted with an engine (built by someone else) and launched down a rail, pulled by two men into a 30 knot wind! Does that qualify as either an invention, no, or as a controlled take off and landing entirely under its own power, dubious indeed. Film in France 4 years (of cotinuous improvement) later shows a flyer carrying a passenger, extra 150 lbs, needing sand bags on pulleys to launch it! Stop using the word 'invented', men had flown hundreds of times before the Wrights.

[shivayadav]

Wright Brothers are not inventer of plane. Shivkar bapuji talpade is the real inventer of aeroplane in 1895 and he is from india 🇮🇳