Wright On

When Orville and Wilbur Wright were young, they loved to play with anything that could fly. Their father, a bishop, had brought home a toy helicopter for them, which they played with endlessly. They were fascinated by how it stayed up in the air and how it moved.

One summer day, the brothers were at the local park, watching the birds fly. They noticed how the birds’ wings moved and flapped, and they wondered if they could create something similar. They found some cardboard and fashioned wings, which they attached to their arms with strings. They ran around the park flapping their wings, trying to get off the ground. It didn’t work, but they were determined to keep trying.

Next, they moved on to kites. They would spend hours designing and building kites, experimenting with different shapes and sizes. They learned about aerodynamics and the importance of balance and stability. They even attached a small camera to one of their kites, which took aerial photographs of their neighborhood.

Their experiments continued, and they started building their own gliders. They would test them by jumping off the roof of their house or running down a hill. They were convinced they could fly if they could just figure out how to stay up in the air.

Years later, the Wright brothers became known as the inventors of the first successful powered airplane. Their childhood fascination with flight had led them to pursue their dream of flying, and their determination had paid off. They had unlocked the secrets of the skies, and their legacy would live on forever.