Wilbur Wright

Wilbur Wright was born in 1871.

He passionately loved his brother Orville Wright, and always worked with him.
From childhood brothers were interested in flight, visited the club kites.
When Wilbur was 17 years old, he, along with his brother, made a printing press.

When the brothers learned of the death of Otto Lilienthal, German inventor who built gliders, it strengthened them in mind to create an aircraft.
Experiments were brothers, which they carried in gliders, have always been associated with the risk.

The Wright brothers developed a system of horizontal flight control with the help of the tail of the vertical bars. Then they started to think about dvizhetele for his plane, spending a lot of time to create a propeller: his theory was developed N.E. Zhukovsky only a decade.

December 17, 1903 airplane the Wright brothers took to the air. His flight lasted 50 seconds.
In the next ten years, the brothers have the glory of the discoverers. But despite this they had to endure a lot of litigation with competitors.

In 1912, Wilbur Wright died.