2nd Grade project

1. By Seth

2. Early life
 The Wight brothers were born in Dayton Ohio

3. Childhood
 When they were young their father gave them a
helicopter toy. They made different small
models and made them bigger when they
worked. Orville told his 2nd grade teacher he
was going to make a flying machine.

4. Major event in Adulthood
 The Wright brothers owned a bike shop but
they were very interested in flying. They first
built gliders that they could fly like kites.

5. Major event in Adulthood
 They had to learn to control the gliders.
Wilbur noticed how a box twisted and that
gave him an idea for how to steer the glider.

6. Major event in Adulthood
 In 1900, they let a person fly in their glider.
They had lots of crashes but were not hurt.

7. How did they change the
World?
 They invented the airplane and successfully
flew it in 1903. The farthest they flew the first
day was 852 feet.
Click here for a
video about the
Wright Brothers