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...letter arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "I am an enthusiast but not a crank," wrote a bicycle-shop owner from Dayton, Ohio. "I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help." The letter was from Wilbur Wright, who, with his brother Orville, wanted to build an airplane. They began with kites and gliders, built their own wind tunnel and even recalculated long-accepted physics equations. Four years later on a blustery North Carolina beach, they succeeded where all others had failed. The longest flight was only...
PROPELLERS Unlike their predecessors who copied boat propellers, the Wrights realized that a propeller works like a rotating wing. The same forces that create lift could generate thrust. The Wright Flyer had two propellers, which moved in opposite directions...
...Wright brothers' flights at Kitty Hawk...
Sources: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; National Park Service; NASA; How We Invented the Airplane, by Orville Wright, 1988 edition (Dover); First Flight, by T.A. Heppenheimer, 2003 (Wiley); On Great White Wings, by Fred E.C. Culick and Spencer Dunmore, 2001 (Hyperion...
...pill easier to obtain will cause it to be abused as regular contraception. “You will have people...falling back on this idea we’ll all just go to the drugstore in the morning and get a morning-after pill,” argued Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America (CWA) in an Associated Press article. CWA is a conservative organization that is opposed to many reproductive rights and has misleadingly linked emergency contraception to abortion...