Building Wright Replicas

The 1902 Wright Glider, first flown on October 8, 1902, at Kitty Hawk and reconstructed here, was the first Wright flying machine to look more like an aircraft than a kite, as all their boxy earlier flying machines had. It was also the first flying machine to perform the three functions all aircraft perform today, from single-engine planes to spacecraft: roll, pitch, and yaw.