Discovery of Flight Foundation<\/a>, the Wright Experience is researching, reconstructing, testing, analyzing, and documenting authentic full-scale reproductions of the Wright Brothers\u2019 developmental aircraft and engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRestoring the Legacy: <\/strong>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. Aircraft restoration is hardly uncomplicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBy using the process of \u201creverse engineering\u201d the Foundation\u2019s team of experts examine original parts, artifacts, and photographs to remanufacture authentic flying aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Constructing the Legacy: <\/strong>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. The Wrights were engineers of the highest caliber. Their designs were evolutionary. Each machine went through many modifications and tests before being superceded by the next design.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flight Testing and Analysis: <\/strong>Each of the prototype aircraft are carefully and thoroughly flight-tested. The best surviving historical documentation records flight performance and the problems the Wrights experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFlight-testing not only confirms design specifications, but also provides another dimension that allows a better understanding of the innovative problem-solving process of the Wright brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flight and wind tunnel tests are analyzed to ensure the accuracy of the prototype aircraft. Final historically accurate reproduction aircraft are then produced as part of a permanent record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These aircraft and all research material form a documentary record that will be prepared and preserved for future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Documentation and Artifacts: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUsing high-resolution scanned images of these historic photographs, Wright Experience engineers have created a window into the secrets the Wrights protected so carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The surviving Wright Brothers\u2019 aircraft are mostly reconstructions. The Discovery of Flight team has examined these aircraft to determine what is original and what is not. Additional historical artifacts and photographs from throughout the world are being acquired and examined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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