Wright brothers aircraft in wind tunnel

2001/11/05 Elhuyar Zientzia

• Garraioak
• Aeronautika

Before they triumphed with motor planes, the Wright brothers learned to fly with the gliders. XX. Orville and the Wilbur Wright brothers built several planes without engines at the beginning of the century, but today none of these prototypes remain. Now, NASA researchers, based on the plans and written details of the Wright brothers, have rebuilt the pioneering gliders and introduced them into the wind tunnel. In this way, researchers want to know the way the Wright brothers had to travel to invent the planes. Orville and Wilbur, without studies, are surprising the advances in aeronautics that took place in a few years.

Therefore, NASA researchers study how the prototypes of gliders and planes of the Wright brothers encountered the technique of flying and entering the wind tunnel. Researchers highlighted the importance of the glider in 1901. This glider was very important to get flying, but not because it was a successful plane, but because it was precisely a failure. With the tests carried out in the wind tunnel, the serious failures presented by the plane 1901 were detected, which contributed to the successes of the coming years. This small wind tunnel was a very important step in the history of aeronautical engineering.