The Wright Brothers: Inventor Of The Aircraft, Had Their First Flight

Mathematical essay The Wright brothers, inventors of the airplane, had their first flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. Their plane was flown by Orville Wright at 10:35 am and was recorded by the photographer, John Thomas Daniels Jr. The flight lasted for 12 seconds, at an approximate speed of 6.8 miles per hour at a maximum height of 120 feet. There were five people their that day to witness the flight. Those people being John T Daniels Jr, Adam Etheridge, Will Dough, area businessman W.C. Brinkley, and Johnny Moore, a local boy who lived in the area. Unfortunately, after several other flight test that day, after the men hauled the flyer back from the fourth flight, a strong gust of wind flipped the flyer several times severely damaging it despite the men's attempt to hold it down. Nowadays, however, flights last far longer and travel much greater distances, as there was a flight that went from Dubai to Auckland, New Zealand which lasted 17 hours and 15 minutes at a range of 14,193 kilometers (8,819 miles). The way that we are able to achieve this great accomplishment is through mathematics. One of those equations being Distance, Rate and Time which could be looked at as distance = rate x time and or d = rt. Some examples of this being d = 436 x 4.5

When the plane is balanced there will be an equal amount of force on the plane from side-to-side and from the front-to-back. Other moments need to be accounted for also (moment being the force of an object) such as the passengers of the plane, the cargo in the cargo hold, the fuel held in the wings that can be transferred from one side to the other via tubes to help balance the plane. All of this is calculated using the equation cg = Total moments / Total weight. That equation is essential when preparing to fly a