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...from the rail, and in Orville Wright's own account "climbed a few feet, stalled, then settled to the ground. My stopwatch showed that the machine had been in the air just 3½ seconds." It was not until nearly a year later, on a cow pasture near Dayton, Ohio, that the Wrights used the derrick (see cut) catapult method which Reader Hatch describes...
Three more flights were made that day, the brothers taking turns at the controls. The longest was 59 seconds, for a distance of 852 feet. Then the wind picked up the plane, rolled it over and wrecked it. But the Wright brothers, bicycle mechanics of Dayton, had proved that man could conquer...
Wives & Machines. The rush of aerial development passed Orville. He built himself a laboratory in Dayton, spent his time puttering in it. After 1918 he rarely flew. He had fractured a hip in an early crash, and any vibration caused him excruciating pain. Occasionally an aircraft company asked his advice. He still loved to build gadgets-a rolling roof and self-opening doors for his summer lodge in Canada, an automatic record-changer, a line of mechanical toys which his brother Lorin manufactured. He lived alone-neither he nor Wilbur ever married. Said Orville: "You can't support...
Last week, at 76, Orville suffered a heart attack. Lung congestion developed. Late one night, under an oxygen tent in the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, death came to Orville Wright, begetter...
Died. Orville Wright, 76, co-inventor of the airplane; of a heart ailment and lung congestion; in Dayton (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...