Orville Wright Quotes
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Four years later he flew, but he became pessimistic along the way. See {613169}.
Born in the Ukraine to middle class parents, he became an successful engineer in Russia before he emigrated in 1919. America has not only been a magnet for the persecuted and the poor but highly skilled, and educated people came to America for the opportunity to further their career. No companies in Europe were then interested in producing large airplanes. In America, within 4 years he started his own company. He helped to design the famous Pan American Airways Flying Boats and in 1942 his company developed the world’s first production helicopter. He might have done that in France, Russia or elsewhere but he chose America like millions of other immigrants.
He was trying to develop an airplane the decade before the Wright Brothers succeeded. However their work did not emerge out of thin air. They had read Chanute’s reports and credit him with a number of their ideas. Chanute, like the Wright Brothers and oither early air pioneers were optimists about the utility of the airplane as well as its feasibility.
The Wright brothers – Orville and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) – were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
