1. Impact of the Wright Flyer
... began training soldiers for the military in aeronautics. "Once the Wrights had established a contract with the Army Signal Corps, they had to instruct the new pilots. Historian Timothy Warnock notes, "Orville personally trained or oversaw the training on Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, of at least 115 individuals."" (Warnock 53). Over time the planes that the Wright brother ... itself were the transatlantic flights of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. These historical attempts would not have been remotely possible without the Wright brothers. The impact only grew exponentially furthe...
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