The Wright Brothers -- when they needed a lightweight material for their plane, they turned to Alcoa.
Mrs Woodman was an 11-year-old girl when the Wright brothers made history with the first powered flight in 1903.
It only flew once and was piloted by Hughes for a mile--44 times farther than the Wright Brothers got.
Observing pigeons in flight inspired the Wright Brothers to build an airplane.
And, of course, the Wright brothers claimed flying was possible and nearly killed themselves trying to make it happen.
The Wright brothers proved otherwise on December 17th 1903, making a series of short flights in a flimsy, single-propeller plane.
After the decade of the Wright Brothers, inventors fled to the newly created research labs for secure jobs with safe retirement plans.
Its electric motors can produce a maximum of 9 kilowatts, or 12 horsepower which is about the same as the Wright brothers had.
The Wright brothers hardly gave birth to the idea of an airplane.
"This is the biggest step forward in transportation since the Wright brothers, " the MP joked as he showed off the machine to the media.
We're the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices, the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers, of Google and Facebook.
Of course, they also laughed at all the people before the Wright brothers, the ones who jumped off cliffs frantically waving their wooden wings or clutching their propeller beanies.
At the villa Rolls had parked the Phantom Aviator Coupe, a special-edition car made in honor of Charles Rolls, who was a pioneering aviator and colleague of the Wright brothers.
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But it's still early days and Feringa says he feels a bit like the Wright Brothers, likening the nano car to their "fairly awkward-looking primitive plane" when compared to the passenger jets of today.
They would also be expected to have heard stories about "famous Americans of different ethnic groups, faiths, and historical periods", with a suggested list including Neil Armstrong, Cesar Chavez, the Wright Brothers, Colin Powell and Bill Gates.
If your team still resists the idea of iterative soft launches, just remind them that if this approach was good enough for Christopher Columbus, Steve Jobs and the Wright brothers, it is probably good enough for them.
Although military leaders were quick to grasp the warfighting potential of airplanes after the Wright Brothers proved the feasibility of flight, it took decades before they were convinced there should be a separate military service dedicated to air power.
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Air power enthusiasts had been making that claim continuously since the Wright Brothers proved the feasibility of heavier-than-air flight in 1903, so by the time the new millennium rolled around there were plenty of people in the Air Force ready to believe it.
"If the Wright brothers were starting out today they'd never get off the ground, " fumes Ky Michaelson, who spent two years dickering with bureaucrats at an offshoot of the FAA to get a license to launch to 390, 000 feet, well past the boundary zone between the Earth's atmosphere and space.
In March 2011 taking advantage of the prize-awarding authority granted by the America Competes Act and with help from the non-profit Wright Brothers Institute and Innocentive, an industry leader in open innovation the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) opened this challenge to the world to solve by posting it on its open innovation portal.
Music will come courtesy of Committed to the Blue Brothers, Funky Voices, Soul Kitchen and our very own Easy Tigers (Graeme Mac and Jon Wright).
She's backed by a band that includes guitarist Ernie Isley of the Isley Brothers and Muscle Shoals Rhythm Stompers keyboard great Clayton Ivey, with backing vocals by 1974 Grammy winner Betty Wright ("Where is the Love").
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