Inspirational Stories

The Wright Brothers

Wilbur and Orville were the third and the fourth son of their parents Milton Wright and his wife Susan Catherine Koerner, who also had two daughters, Katherine and Ida. Wilbur Wright, the elder one of the "Wright Brothers", was born on April 16, 1867, in Millville, IN. His younger brother Orville Wright was born four years later on August 19, 1871, in Dayton, OH. The Wright Brothers are nowadays commonly known as the inventors of the first airplane that allowed a human being to make a controlled2 and sustained flight for the first time.

The two brothers gained their very first interest in flying at the very young age of 11 and 8 when their father brought home a foot-long helicopter device made of paper and cork. The experiences they made while playing and recreating the helicopter were referenced by the Wright Brothers as their initial spark of interest towards flying.

It is astonishing that the two brothers Wilbur and Orville didn't spend much time during their youth and their early career with their interest in flying, as both of them went to high school and became editors (Wilbur) and publishers (Orville) of a weekly regional newspaper when starting a printing business. The brother's interest in flying reignited when opening a sales and repair shop for bicycles that allowed them to fund their aeronautical experimentations.

Orville and Wilbur started to gather as much information about flying and aeronautics as possible, from many different sources such as magazines but also from the Smithsonian Institution and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, Otto Lilienthal, and many others. The more the brothers investigated and the more knowledge they absorbed about flying, the more manifested the belief that flight was nearly impossible for humans, especially after Otto Lilienthal died in an incident with his glider. Nevertheless, the two brothers never gave up and pursued their dream even further with field experiments with unmanned kites and gliders, in 1900. The brother's perseverance and testing with different gliders finally paid off in 1903, when Orville and Wilbur had built the Wright Flyer, a flight device with wooden propellers and a built in a gasoline engine, that they had created in their bicycle shop, which finally enabled Orville to make the first flight of mankind for 12 seconds. From this point on, the success story of the Wright Brothers started to evolve into astrological dimensions, amongst many other things, Wilbur's record flight that lasted more than two hours.

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You can clearly see that the Wright Brothers succeeded in overcoming a limitation that only existed within people's minds - the misbelieve that humans cannot fly. If you truly believe in something, then you will be able to reach it.

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If you have a dream, go for it and chase it! Just like the Wright brothers. People used to think building something that can fly is impossible 200 years ago, but look at us now, flying all over the world with aeroplanes. So don't let little obstacles on your road of success stop you from achieving your dream. Just believe that you can do it :D