The wilbur soot subreddit seems to be going well.

Everybody who is still supporting wilbur, Reddit is with you! Tons of love and support is still there from all of us on the wilbur subreddit!

It’s truly devastating that such an amazing man’s legacy had to end up the way he did… typhoid fever is brutal. The inventor of the plane will not be forgotten fellow wilbur wrightians!!

i've seen them like three times on screen together and this is the first time they actually play brothers

I can't believe the Wilbur subreddit has literally just... Changed Wilburs after the drama lmaoo

Long live our ace icon Wilbur Wright o7

Wright Brothers National Memorial

I love how r/wilbursoot is turning into r/wilburwright, it’s beautiful

Mr O'Berg and Mr Wilbur Wright in 1908

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Wilbur Wright – Scientist of the Day

Wilbur Wright, the elder of the aviating brothers, died May 30, 1912, at age 45.

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hey guys, who's wilbursoot, I only remember Wilbur Wright, who's birthday happens to be today :)

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Learning Resources Center, Wilbur Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago, 4300 N Narragansett Ave, Chicago, IL 60634

Founded 1934; Current campus completed 1992, Bertrand Goldberg, architect

BGA designed Wright College as a new campus for the City Colleges of Chicago. It featured four large buildings, and a five acre park on a ten acre site. The project was notable for the Learning Resource Center, a large pyramid-shaped building, as the focal point of the design. Described by Goldberg as a learning center that “could operate for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week,” the building featured an enclosed central atrium that extended to the top of the pyramid. All the faculty offices were housed in this building, with a library also on the floors around the atrium. So too, all the computer laboratories and special hi-tech learning was located on the first floor. Inside, the corners of the pyramid were “opened up”, making each floor visible from the next, Goldberg hoped to facilitate experiential communication between the students, faculty and staff engaged in various activities.

Bertrand Goldberg

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Happy Anniversary

On this day in 1903 - The Wright brothers made the first successful sustained flight in an airplane— gliding 120 feet (36.6 metres) through the air in 12 seconds.

The Wright brothers inaugurated the aerial age with the world's first successful flights of a powered heavier-than-air flying machine. The Wright Flyer was the product of a sophisticated four-year program of research and development conducted by Wilbur and Orville Wright beginning in 1899. After building and testing three full-sized gliders, the Wrights' first powered airplane flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, making a 12-second flight, traveling 36 m (120 ft), with Orville piloting. The best flight of the day, with Wilbur at the controls, covered 255.6 m (852 ft) in 59 seconds.

December 11, 2022

National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC

It's December 17th, 🛩️ Wright Brothers Day, the day America honors its favorite sons, the Wright Brothers of Dayton, Ohio, for having invented, built, and flown the world’s first motor-powered airplane. On this day in 1903, with Wilbur running alongside their "Wright Flyer" to balance the fragile craft, Orville piloted the plane into the air for 12 seconds over a distance of 120 feet above the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. And the rest is history.

The Wright brothers became fascinated with flying when their father bought the boys a toy helicopter – a device based upon an invention by French aeronautical pioneer Alphonse Pénaud. Wilbur and Orville played with it until it broke and then built a new one of their own. 

In August, 1896, German glider Otto Lilienthal plunged to his death during one of his gliding tests. This tragic accident impressed itself in the minds of the Wright brothers, who were young men now, and marked the beginning of their serious interest in motor-powered flight. After studying Lilienthal's publications, Wilbur and Orville decided to pick up where Lilienthal left off. 

The brothers’ experimentation with flying was quite simple, yet impressive. They observed the way birds change the angle of their wings to make their bodies roll left or right and concluded that this would also be a great way for a flying machine to turn. 

After several weeks of delays caused by broken propeller shafts during the engine tests, the Wright brothers finally took to the air at 10:35 AM on December 17th, 1903. ☮️ Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

Wilbur Wright flies around the Statue of Liberty

Wilbur Wright, one of the brothers made famous for the invention of the aeroplane, caused another sensation with this flight around the Statue of Liberty in 1909.

He had been asked to get involved in special exhibition flights that were being put on in order to celebrate 300 years of New York City. The flight took place on 29 September 1909 and lasted no more than five minutes, but caused quite a stir with onlookers and the press.