ORVILLE WRIGHT

Hoy se cumple un aniversario más de la fecha de nacimiento de Orville Wright, en 1871, quien junto con su hermano Wilbur fueron los creadores del primer aeroplano que voló con éxito el 17 de diciembre de 1903. Ellos fueron los inventores de los controles que permitían el vuelo a estas aeronaves de alas fijas.
De Wikipedia copio un párrafo:
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.
Y este otro de http://www.surfnetkids.com/wright.htm
On December 17, 1903 the Wright brothers made the world's first flight in a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine that cost about $1000 to build. With Orville at the controls and Wilbur on the ground, the plane flew 120 feet in twelve seconds. Although man had dreamt of flying for centuries, it took these two unschooled young men (bicycle shopkeepers by trade) to finally lift us off the ground.
En una de las historietas de Calvin & Hobbes se lee esta frase: "Don't sell the Bike Shop, Orville". It is a reference to Wright Brothers Orville & Wilbur Wright and "The Bike Shop Syndrome": While working on their flying machine in Dayton, Wilbur told Orville, "Don’t sell the Bike Shop!"