首次动力控制飞行120周年纪念
In this image from Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth as his brother Wilbur looks on. Orville Wright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds during the first flight of the day. The Wright brothers made four flights that day, each longer than the last.
The aircraft, Flyer 1, was wrecked beyond repair after the fourth flight, but Orville took the wreckage home to Ohio and restored it. It went on display at the London Science Museum until 1948 when the Smithsonian Institution took ownership.
The Wrights’ legacy has traveled beyond Earth; engineers attached a postage-stamp-sized piece of Flyer 1’s wing material to a cable underneath NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. As of Dec. 2, 2023, Ingenuity has traveled a total distance of 9.6 miles with a total flight time of 2 hours 1 minute 5 seconds. Its ground-breaking mission continues, paving the way for future aerial explorers of Mars.
Explore this historic flight and its effect on aeronautics.
Image Credit: Library of Congress
在这张1903年12月17日的照片中，奥维尔·赖特在他的兄弟威尔伯的注视下，在地球上进行了第一次动力控制飞行。奥维尔·莱特在当天的第一次飞行中，用12秒的时间飞行了120英尺。莱特兄弟当天进行了四次飞行，一次比一次长。
这架名为“飞行者1号”的飞机在第四次飞行后失事，无法修复，但奥维尔将残骸带回了俄亥俄州，并对其进行了修复。它一直在伦敦科学博物馆展出，直到1948年史密森学会获得所有权。
莱特兄弟的遗产已经超越了地球；工程师们将一块邮票大小的“飞行者1号”机翼材料连接到NASA机智号火星直升机下面的电缆上。截至2023年12月2日，机智号已经飞行了9.6英里，总飞行时间为2小时1分5秒。它的开创性任务仍在继续，为未来的火星空中探险者铺平了道路。
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