While the earliest wind tunnels such as that used by the Wright Brothers were powered by simple fans, it is not possible for any propeller to surpass subsonic speeds. This is evidenced by there ...

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, spent years chasing a dream that seemed impossible. But on December 17, 1903, at ...

While the earliest wind tunnels such as that used by the Wright Brothers were powered by simple fans, it is not possible for any propeller to surpass subsonic speeds. This is evidenced by there ...

At the end of 1901 the Wrights had confirmed, by ingenious wind-tunnel experiments ... try to get Andrew Carnegie to supply funds. WILBUR WRIGHT TO OCTAVE CHANUTE December 23,1901 As to your ...

After the trials at Kitty Hawk of their 1909 glider, designed with knowledge gained from their wind-tunnel experiments ... Another problem was propellers. The brothers had assumed that they ...

The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but helped ...

The Wright brothers designed and made their own propellers, aided by the use of their own wind tunnel (which they also designed and built themselves). The propellers worked as rotating wings ...

And in a wind tunnel you're not using full-scale wings but small model wings. The Wright brothers created as many as 200 of these little model wings, and they seriously tested upwards of 50 of ...

Each year on Dec. 17, the anniversary of the Wright brothers' historic first flight, the Wright Cycle Co. building in downtown Petoskey opens to the public.