Wright Brothers First Flight
Wilbur and Orville Wright, the Wright Brothers, are the first men to operate a flight that is “heavier than air” and successfully do so.

It has been argued that Wilbur and Orville Wright did not launch the first flight and invent the airplane, but the fact remains that they did. The Wright brothers’ first flight was the evidence of years and years of work on their part; they had a whole different approach to the idea of flying than other people did. The Wright brothers believed that flight could be accomplished the same way bicycling can be accomplished--with a certain amount of balance and control that can only be acquired through practice. They may have said this only because they were accomplished in all aspects of the bicycle back then, from maintenance to repair to building and riding bicycles.

The Wright brothers’ first flight occurred in 1903, midway through the month of December. The birth of flight for the Wright brothers occurred on a field, with lots of hope and a prayer for a gifting gust of wind to help lift the Wright brothers’ flight contraption into the air and put the Wright brothers’ one step closer to being the first people to accomplish the miracle of flight that ever was.

Who saw the Wright brothers’ first flight? A handful of reporters and anybody else who gathered to watch were present at the Wright brothers’ firs flight, but reporters were asked to refrain from bringing cameras and taking photographs of their flight attempts. Any pictures of the Wright brothers’ first flight were taken by the Wright brothers themselves, which caused a great deal of skepticism in the world about the validity of the supposed first flight attempts made by the brothers.

The Wright brothers took a different approach toward the invention of the flight; as far as how far and how long the first flight was, the pilot wasn’t able to travel very far and they certainly were not airborne for more than a small amount of time, so how incredible could the Wright brothers’ invention of the flight have been at the time? In an age where air travel was something people only dared to dream about, the Wright brothers were pioneering a field that people had never blazed through before.