“Goodbye”Orville Wright Died 30 January 1948

Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948), along with his brother Wilbur, was an American inventor and aviation pioneer who was 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. From 1905 to 1907, 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.