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THE death on January 30 Of Orville Wright marks the passing of the second of the great co-pioneers of mechanical flight (Wilbur Wright died in 1912), and of the man who actually made the first controlled and sustained flight in an aeroplane. Orville was born at Dayton, Ohio, on August 19, 1871, and was the fourth son Of Bishop Milton Wright, Wilbur being the third. The two brothers grew up inseparable in youth and manhood; so close was their collaboration that their experimental work can be regarded only as a single achievement-though Wilbur, on account of his age and special gifts, may have been the leader.
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DAVY, M. Mr. Orville Wright. Nature 161, 269–270 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161269b0
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