- Neither of the Wright brothers married throughout their lives. Wilbur is recorded as once saying that he “did not have time for both a wife and an airplane.”
- Wilbur and Orville were the only members of the Wright family who didn’t attend college. Orville spent the years learning the printing trade, while Wilbur helped at the local church.
- In 1909 the Wright Company was incorporated with Wilbur as president and Orville as one of two vice-presidents. The company’s factory was based in Dayton and their flying field was at the nearby Huffman Prairie.
- In their later lives, the Wright brothers attributed their fascination with flying machines to a small toy helicopter, which their father had brought home one day from his travels.
- Both extensively catalogued their aviation experiments, leading to Wilbur Wright delivering a talk at the prestigious Western Society of Engineers in Chicago in 1901. The speech was entitled ‘Some Aeronautical Experiments’.
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