At Wright Brothers National Memorial visitors have the chance to connect to and experience
history that has changed the world. Even today on the 117th anniversary of the first flight, the
inspiration of Wilbur and Orville Wright continues to resonate. So we decide to ask visitors,
what do you love about the wright brothers story? That like, they were like the first ones to like
take flight with the first working plane. Their love of flight. You know, myself, as a pilot that
loved flying since I was three years old, became a pilot right after graduating from high school and
been in love with flight ever since. And so they just kind of just went out their own way and just
proved them wrong. I mean I think it's pretty cool that there's pretty much nothing here and they
just decided to make a plane and the perseverance that it took was probably insane so I just think
it's pretty cool that they did what they did. Um it's just inspirational to me. It's fascinating
that two brothers could get together and work on anything to begin with but the fact to take
on an ins an a idea such as flight that others were trying to also solve at this point in time,
work together closely, argue and come up with solutions to items that people hadn't even thought
of before. What I love about the Wright brothers is that um they always kept trying and that um
they never really stopped and they always were really interested in flying.
Um the ingenuity, kind of just the thought that they saw a problem and
were like let's let's try and figure that out let's try and see if we can do that.
They liked that they just worked hard to achieve what they wanted to achieve and that
like their parents inspired them to do things but they did the rest on their own.
Um I think the most inspiring part is just their perseverance and never letting their
setbacks like discourage them and always you know yeah. Well I’ve seen the original uh
machine in at the Smithsonian in DC and I was very intrigued. What I love about the
Wright brothers story is just the history of their time here and the perseverance that they
had to complete flight. What I found was most interesting was the amount of experimentation
and actually the fact that they had to engage other people to learn from other people's mistakes
and the very methodical way they went about the whole thing. What I love about the Wright
brothers is that they let us be able to see the world I’ve been able to see pretty much
most of Africa some Asia, Europe everywhere all because of that them and their invention.
I think what I love about the story is it is a real grassroots effort to improve transportation
by two brothers who had no stake in it, they they built bicycles essentially and
they use that knowledge and energy to to create something that is now
worldwide. Everyone thought that it was impossible but they proved them wrong. As we can see even 117
years after the first flight took place the story of the wright brothers continues to inspire and
resonate with people today. With that in mind, how does the story continue to inspire you?