Wilbur And Orville Wright Research Paper

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Everybody wants to fly one day and Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright made that a possibility.They took flight on December,17,1903 where their lives changed.
Wilbur was born in Millville,Indiana on April,16,1867 he was the first child in his family.His brother Orville Wright was brother and 2nd child of the Wright family. Where they moved to Dayton,Ohio where they grew up to work in their bicycle shop.Where they worked with their sister and his other brothers worked their to earn money.
When the wright brothers were thinking of ideas for.The airplane the wright brothers suffered minor injures from building the plane.Where the wright brothers failed other several attempts from the plane.Then Wilbur and Orville found stability problems with the

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