Wright Brothers - How Wilbur Discovers Wing WarpingThis "NASA Connect" video clip explains how the Wright Brothers succeeded, where other more notable people had failed, to solve the problem of powered flight. Move the video forward, to 3:58, to see how Wilbur's use of an inner-tube box led to his discovery of wing-warping (also referred to as the aileron principle of flight). CreditsVideo online, courtesy NASA Connect.
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Biographies
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Attila the Hun
- Beethoven's Hair
- Benedict Arnold
- Brockovich, Erin
- Chronicles of Narnia
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- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
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