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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
Later, the Wright brothers began to design their own flying machine.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
They used ideas they had developed from earlier experiments with a toy helicopter, kites, the printing machine and bicycles.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
Soon, they needed a place to test their ideas about flight.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
The best place with the best wind conditions seemed to be a piece of sandy land in North Carolina along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
It was called Kill Devil Hill, near the town of Kitty Hawk. The Wright brothers did many tests with gliders at Kitty Hawk.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
With these tests, they learned how to solve many problems.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
By the autumn of 1903, Wilbur and Orville had designed and built an airplane powered by a gasoline engine.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
The plane had wings 12 meters across. It weighed about 340 kilograms, including the pilot.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
On December 17th, 1903, they made the world's first flight in a machine that was heavier than air and powered by an engine.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
Orville flew the plane 36 meters. He was in the air for 12 seconds.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
The two brothers made three more flights that day. Four other men watched the Wright brothers' first flights.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
One of the men took pictures. Few newspapers, however, noted the event.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
It was almost five years before the Wright brothers became famous. In 1908, Wilbur went to France.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
He gave demonstration flights at heights of 90 meters. A French company agreed to begin making the Wright brothers' flying machine.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
Orville made successful flights in the United States at the time Wilbur was in France. The United States War Department agreed to buy a Wright brothers' plane.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
Wilbur and Orville suddenly became world heroes. But the brothers were not seeking fame.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
They returned to Dayton where they continued to improve their airplanes. They taught many others how to fly.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
Wilbur Wright died of typhoid fever in 1912. Orville Wright continued designing and inventing until he died many years later, in 1948.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
Today, the Wright brothers' first airplane is in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane
Visitors to the museum can look at the Wright brothers' small plane. Then they can walk to another area and see space vehicles and a rock collected from the moon.
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winter
winter
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Word Stress and Lists: American English Pronunciation
In this American English pronunciation video we're going to go over word stress and intonation
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world
world
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would
would
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Would you like another biscuit
Would you like another biscuit
Source badges: Public domain · Creator video · Digital presenter · Reference recording. Literary passages are public domain. Studio notes are not spoken in the audio.