Orville's Wind Tunnel Workshop

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, there would be little hope for advance

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Born in Dayton, Ohio. Never graduated high school. Neither did Wilbur. We ran a bicycle shop -- the Wright Cycle Company. Bicycles taught us everything we needed: balance, lightweight structures, chain-driven mechanisms. On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, I flew for 12 seconds. 120 feet. The entire distance was shorter than a modern Boeing 747. Wilbur and I built our own wind tunnel from a starch box and a fan. We tested over 200 wing shapes. Everyone else was guessing. We measured. Tip: Build the test rig before you build the thing. Langley had government funding and a catapult. We had a bicycle shop and a headwind. We won because we tested more and assumed less.