Aviation before the wright brothers

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1901:

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905:

\nSeveral aviators have been claimed to be the first to fly a powered aeroplane.
Much controversy surrounds these claims.
It is generally, although not universally, accepted today that the Wright brothers were the first to achieve sustained and controlled powered manned flight, in 1903.
It is popularly held in Brazil that their native citizen Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first successful aviator, discounting the Wright brothers' claim because their Flyer took off from a rail, and in later flights would sometimes employ a catapult.
An editorial in the 2013 edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft supported the claim of Gustave Whitehead.
Claims by, or on behalf of, other pioneers such as Clement Ader have also been put forward from time to time.

Katharine Wright Haskell was the younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright.
She worked closely with her brothers, managing their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, when they were away; acting as their right-hand woman and general factotum in Europe; assisting with their voluminous correspondence and business affairs; and providing a sounding board for their far-ranging ideas.
She pursued a professional career as a high school teacher in Dayton, at a time when few middle-class American women worked outside the home, and went on to become an international celebrity in her own right.
A significant figure in the early-twentieth-century women's movement, she worked actively on behalf of woman suffrage in Ohio and served as the third female trustee of Oberlin College.

The Wright Brothers is a 2015 non-fiction book written by the popular historian David McCullough and published by Simon & Schuster.
It is a history of the American inventors and aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright.
The book was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list for seven weeks in 2015.

The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at what is now known as Kill Devil Hills.
The brothers were also the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.

Airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright are famed for making the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flights on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Lesser-known are other flights of theirs which played an important role at the dawn of aviation history.
In 1909 Wilbur was invited by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee to make paid exhibition flights to help mark 300 years of New York history, including Henry Hudson discovering Manhattan and Robert Fulton starting a successful commercial steamboat service on the Hudson River.
The committee wanted the Wrights to demonstrate flights over the water around New York City.
Orville was making flights for customers in Germany, so Wilbur, who had just finished training U.S.
Army pilots, accepted the job.

The Wright brothers patent war centers on the patent that the Wright brothers received for their method of airplane flight control.
They were two Americans who are widely credited with inventing and building the world's first flyable airplane and making the first controlled, powered, and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on December 17, 1903.

The Wright Flyer made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft—an airplane—on December 17, 1903.
Invented and flown by brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, it marked the beginning of the pioneer era of aviation.

The Wright brothers designed, built and flew a series of three manned gliders in 1900–1902 as they worked towards achieving powered flight.
They also made preliminary tests with a kite in 1899.
In 1911 Orville conducted tests with a much more sophisticated glider.
Neither the kite nor any of the gliders were preserved, but replicas of all have been built.

The Wright Model A was an early aircraft produced by the Wright Brothers in the United States beginning in 1906. \nIt was a development of their Flyer III airplane of 1905.
The Wrights built about seven Model As in their bicycle shop during the period 1906–1907, in which they did no flying.
One of these was shipped to Le Havre in 1907 in order to demonstrate it to the French.
The Model A had a 35-horsepower (26 kW) engine and seating for two with a new control arrangement.
Otherwise, it was identical to the 1905 airplane.
The Model A was the first aircraft that they offered for sale, and the first aircraft design to enter serial production anywhere in the world.
Apart from the seven machines the Wrights built themselves in 1906–1907, they sold licences for production in Europe with the largest number of Model A's actually being produced in Germany by Flugmaschine Wright GmbH, which built about 60 examples.

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1901:

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905:

\nSeveral aviators have been claimed to be the first to fly a powered aeroplane.
Much controversy surrounds these claims.
It is generally, although not universally, accepted today that the Wright brothers were the first to achieve sustained and controlled powered manned flight, in 1903.
It is popularly held in Brazil that their native citizen Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first successful aviator, discounting the Wright brothers' claim because their Flyer took off from a rail, and in later flights would sometimes employ a catapult.
An editorial in the 2013 edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft supported the claim of Gustave Whitehead.
Claims by, or on behalf of, other pioneers such as Clement Ader have also been put forward from time to time.

Katharine Wright Haskell was the younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright.
She worked closely with her brothers, managing their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, when they were away; acting as their right-hand woman and general factotum in Europe; assisting with their voluminous correspondence and business affairs; and providing a sounding board for their far-ranging ideas.
She pursued a professional career as a high school teacher in Dayton, at a time when few middle-class American women worked outside the home, and went on to become an international celebrity in her own right.
A significant figure in the early-twentieth-century women's movement, she worked actively on behalf of woman suffrage in Ohio and served as the third female trustee of Oberlin College.

Milton Wright was the father of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and a bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.

The Wright Brothers is a 2015 non-fiction book written by the popular historian David McCullough and published by Simon & Schuster.
It is a history of the American inventors and aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright.
The book was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list for seven weeks in 2015.

The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at what is now known as Kill Devil Hills.
The brothers were also the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.

Airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright are famed for making the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flights on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Lesser-known are other flights of theirs which played an important role at the dawn of aviation history.
In 1909 Wilbur was invited by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee to make paid exhibition flights to help mark 300 years of New York history, including Henry Hudson discovering Manhattan and Robert Fulton starting a successful commercial steamboat service on the Hudson River.
The committee wanted the Wrights to demonstrate flights over the water around New York City.
Orville was making flights for customers in Germany, so Wilbur, who had just finished training U.
S.
Army pilots, accepted the job.

The Wright brothers patent war centers on the patent that the Wright brothers received for their method of airplane flight control.
They were two Americans who are widely credited with inventing and building the world's first flyable airplane and making the first controlled, powered, and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on December 17, 1903.

The Wright Flyer made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft—an airplane—on December 17, 1903.
Invented and flown by brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, it marked the beginning of the pioneer era of aviation.

The Wright brothers designed, built and flew a series of three manned gliders in 1900–1902 as they worked towards achieving powered flight.
They also made preliminary tests with a kite in 1899.
In 1911 Orville conducted tests with a much more sophisticated glider.
Neither the kite nor any of the gliders were preserved, but replicas of all have been built.

The Wright Model A was an early aircraft produced by the Wright Brothers in the United States beginning in 1906. \nIt was a development of their Flyer III airplane of 1905.
The Wrights built about seven Model As in their bicycle shop during the period 1906–1907, in which they did no flying.
One of these was shipped to Le Havre in 1907 in order to demonstrate it to the French.
The Model A had a 35-horsepower (26 kW) engine and seating for two with a new control arrangement.
Otherwise, it was identical to the 1905 airplane.
The Model A was the first aircraft that they offered for sale, and the first aircraft design to enter serial production anywhere in the world.
Apart from the seven machines the Wrights built themselves in 1906–1907, they sold licences for production in Europe with the largest number of Model A's actually being produced in Germany by Flugmaschine Wright GmbH, which built about 60 examples.