On one such occasion, when Wilbur Wright found the weather conditions unsatisfactory, he declined to fly. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Wilbur Wright led in a cheer to those circling above. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
At that time Wilbur was eleven and Orville seven years old. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
He found that Wilbur Wright actually preferred to fly without an audience, and thought nothing of disappointing the crowds that gathered to watch him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Orville Wright made a flight with a passenger on board, and a little later Wilbur flew eight miles, at a rate of forty-five miles an hour. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Wilbur Wright was asked if he would not try for the prize offered to the first man to fly across the English Channel. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Then he turned to shake hands with Wilbur Wright. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Then, in 1900, Wilbur wrote to his father that he was going on a holiday to a place in North Carolina called Kitty Hawk, to try a glider. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
But the problem of balancing was not yet solved, and here Wilbur and Orville Wright entered upon the scene. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Then the plane broke the world’s record of one hour, nine minutes, and forty seconds, that Wilbur Wright had made earlier in the year. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Wilbur Wright had a similar shack built on his flying-field in France, and planned to do his own cooking. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Wilbur Wright, at the rear, turned the propellers and started the motor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
It is easier to learn to fly than it is to walk, Wilbur Wright has said. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Delagrange, his nearest competitor, acknowledged frankly that Wilbur Wright was his superior as an aviator. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
But as soon as Wilbur Wright showed what he could actually do, all this changed, and the French could not say enough that was good about him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.