Wright Flyer III
The Wright Flyer III was the third powered aircraft by the Wright brothers in 1905.
History
Orville Wright flew the Flyer III for the first time on 23 June 1905. The Flyer III had a new hull, but in principle the same drive system as the Flyer II and flyers I. After an accident on 14 July 1905, the size of the elevator was, and whose distance to the wings doubled. The control of wing twist was incorporated into a stick.
Wilbur Wright succeeded on October 5, 1905, a flight over 38.6 km in 39.5 minutes. Four days later she wrote to the American Secretary of War, and offered the aircraft to no avail for purchase. On 7 November 1905, they dismantled the prototype. It was not until 1908 overhauled and re- flown at Kitty Hawk between 6 and 14 May 1908. On May 14, Wilbur Wright crashed in a sand dune and the damaged aircraft was stored in a warehouse and only restored in 1947.
In order to protect their patent rights, the Wrights allowed only a few eyewitnesses in their early flights. However, they documented the first steps of motorized flight and other details of the time with over 300 self- taken photographs.
The Wrights built after the crash on May 14, 1908, a new aircraft, the Wright Model A. On September 9, a demonstration flight for the U.S. Army took place at Fort Myer. The flight lasted about an hour. In the 9th of September, the first passenger Charlie Furnas was taken. Five days later it was there a crash from 30 m in height, with the mitfliegende officer Thomas Selfridge was killed and Orville Wright possibly sustain a complicated skull fracture.
The Flyer III was restored in 1947-1950 with the help of Orville Wright and is now in the Wright Brothers Aviation Center at Carillon Historical Park in Dayton (Ohio ) is shown. The 1905 Wright Flyer III is the only aircraft which belongs to the National Historic Landmarks of the United States.