Links to More Information
About the Wright Brothers and Flight

• The Invention of Aircraft
• An Uplifting Experience
• Amelia Earhart.com/
• Accident at Kitty Hawk
• Brain Pop - Flight
• First Flight from the Library of Congress
• Orville & Wilbur Wright Exhibit Wright brothers collection of the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library.
• Countdown to Kittyhawk  
• Your Own Flight
• Flights of Inspiration  
• The Franklin Institute-The Wright Brothers
• First Flight
• First Flight
• Fundamentals of Flight for Beginners
• Wright Brothers Exhibit from the Henry Ford Museum
• Field Trip History of Flight from Scholastic
• How Things Fly
• Dream of Flight
• Flight School This site has experiments to demonstrate the principles of flight. Also has multimedia presentations to illustrate the experiments.
• Simple Flying Things
• The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
• Off to a Flying Start Introduction to Flight
• Off to a Flying Start Enrichment Activities for teachers
• Roto-copter pattern and more from Exploratorium
• Centennial of Flight from NASA
• Background material on the Wright Brothers from NASA
• Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk, N.C.
• Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park in Dayton, Ohio
• Re-living the Wright Way
• Wright Brothers Collection Wright State University
• Milestones of Flight from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• 1903 Flyer and  Drawings and Photographs
• Restoration of the Wright 1903 Flyer
• How We Made the First Flight   
• Wright Brothers.org
• The Centennial of Flight
• First Flight complete with simulation and history of flight 
• How We Made the First Flight  
• Wright Brothers 
• The Wright Stuff Great site from the FAA-look for the Activity Booklet
• Wright Brothers Airplane Company and Museum 
• Wright Brothers Day Proclamation 
• Profile of Wilbur & Orville: Flight Deck  
• www.centennialofflight.gov 1900 glider movie
• Wright Again.com
• Multimedia from NASA 
• Simulations from NASA 
• How things fly 
• PBS: The Birdmen  
• EyeWitness December 17, 1903  

   

   

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