What spurred the wrights interest in flight

The Road to the First Flight. A carbon copy of Orville Wright's sketch, drawn from memory, of the Penaud helicopter that influenced the brothers. In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, two brothers from Dayton, OH, became the first people to fly a heavier than air, power controlled machine, known as the Wright Flyer.

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