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| The Discovery of Flight Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization which seeks to rediscover the Wright Brothers experimentation, discovery, and methodology; provide for the reconstruction of original Wright Brothers aircraft; and create a living classroom for people of all ages. The foundation has contracted with the Wright Experience to achieve this ambitious plan. |
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| The Wright Experience Team |
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Ken W. Hyde, Founder
John Canedo
Greg Cone
Milt Cockrell
Thomas Dowell
Cliff Gutridge
Bill Hadden
Wendy Hyde
Cyndi Messick
Dave Meyer
Cheryl Morgan
Larry Parks
E. Scott Rawlings
Wes and Donna Smith
Steve Thal-Larsen
Debbie Thomas-Albrecht
Mark Trezza
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A Legacy Lost: One hundred years ago, Orville and Wilbur Wright set out to solve the problems of flight. Their early prototype developmental aircraft were destroyed along with all the construction documentation and drawings. Today these aircraft exist only in grainy black and white photographs... |
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Restoring the Legacy Imagine the painstaking attention to detail required to recreate the research, experimentation, documentation, drawings, components, and aircraft of the Wrights when very little original work remains to this day. |
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Constructing the Legacy: The best way to rediscover how the Wrights accomplished this incredible achievement in so short a time is to experience for ourselves what the Wrights experienced. In experiencing this process of invention in our own shops we are discovering and recording how the Wright Brothers worked, how they thought, and how they completed the design of a practical airplane in only five years. |
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Flight Testing and Analysis: Each of the prototype aircraft will be carefully and thoroughly flight-tested. The best surviving historical documentation records flight performance and the problems the Wrights experienced. |
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Documentation and Artifacts: Many prototype developmental aircraft of the Wright Brothers were destroyed along with all construction documentation and drawings. What have survived are photographs taken by the Wrights to record their progress. Using high-resolution scanned images of these historic photographs, the Wright Experience engineers have created a window into the secrets the Wrights so carefully protected. |
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