WILBUR WRIGHT TO OCTAVE CHANUTE DAYTON ... neither had the slightest doubt about flying their new power machine. ORVILLE WRIGHT TO HIS SISTER KITTY HAWK, N.C., October 4, 1903 These two days ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight.

Brookins was born in Dayton in July 1889. At one time he was a student of Katharine Wright, Orville and Wilbur’s sister and an Oberlin College-educated schoolteacher. Orville in particular took ...

WILBUR WRIGHT TO OCTAVE CHANUTE December ... that the flying problem is really nearing its solution. ORVILLE WRIGHT TO HIS SISTER KITTY HAWK, October 28, 1902 Everybody is out of camp today ...