Wright Brothers Flyer Engine
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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How it all started
Ever wonder how we fly in big air liners and can travel around the world and protect our skies? It all started in 1903 when the Wright Brothers ( Orville and Wilbur ) made the historic flight at kitty hawk air field
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History of the air craft engine
Ever sense the beginning of time man wanted to fly . The close we got was falling off very high places or dreaming . That all changed when two bicycle makers Orville and Wilbur Wright two American brothers made that dream come true . In December ,17 1903. When they first started they tested gliders . Orville had an idea " what if we can power it with an engine ?" They found that the engine had to be at least 8 (hp) and could not weight more than 200 pounds .
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The engine was made of a cast block 92% aluminum ,8% copper the complete engine weight 180 pounds and produced 12 (hp) at 1025 (rpm). The engine as a four cylinder .The fuel tank was one gallon it was it was suspended from a wing strut gravity feed to the engine .
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How it changed over time
Over the corse of history the airplane evolved in to enormous machine we the people of the world made the flyer better for uses like. war,transportation,entertainment.
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Ten facts I did not know
1. Four cylinder engine
2. 12 (hp)
3. Eight foot propellers
4. The right wing was four inches longer for stability
5. The brothers made a bet for who was to fly it Wilber
won and crashed it after take of
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The rest of the facts
6. After the crash they fixed it and Orville
flown the flyer for 59 seconds and it went 852 Ft
7. The flyer went 30 miles per hour
8. The flyer launched off two rails
9. The propellers were made by hand with a hatchet and a draw knife
10. The brothers had to build a wind tunnel in order to test the propellers
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Work cited
Wright brothers flying machine.www.pbs.org.web.16 may.2014
1903 wright engine.
www.wright brother.web.
16 may.2014
Wright 1903 aircraft engine.www.grc.nasa.gov.web.16 may.2014
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