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On the 16th of April, 1867, Wilbur Wright is born.
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On the 19th of August, 1871, Orville Wright is born
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When the Wrights move to Rchmond Indiana, Oriville, at the age of nine, takes up kite building
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The Wright Brothers build and fly a bipplane kite in order to test the "wing warping" method of controlling a flying machine, which influences them to continue their research on planes.
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The Wright brothers spend somewhere between 700 and 1000 experimental flights and increase their flight of their glider up to over 600 feet in air travel distance
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Wrights conduct experiments with propellers and begin to build their first four-cylinder engine.
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Wilbur flies their new powerful plane and manages to do the first turn in a heavier-than-air object and by the end of the day manages to do a full turn.
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The Wrights carry a passenger on a flight for the first time, the passenger, being Charles W. Furnas.
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Congressional Medal is awarded to the Wrights by resolution of Congress.
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The Military Buys the plane for $25,000. It is the first military in the world to use planes.
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Sadly, Wilbur Right dies of typhoid fever in Dayton.
