"Flights of Inspiration" - First Flight. Wilbur Wright and his younger brother Orville were ordinary boys with ordinary toys.
Somehow, they became extraordinary men with extraordinary machines. The story of their success can inspire all young dreamers to become the inventors of the future. Part I - Inventing the Future Neither Wilbur nor Orville was an educated man. Yet in order to fly, they had to become scientists. Who Invented the First Airplane? WayBack . Flight . Wright Flight. The First Successful Airplane. First Airplane. Wright brothers history: First Airplane Flight, 1903. 1903 would become a year for the history books.
That year the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, would fly the first powered, controlled, heavier-than-air airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. 1 Most people don't know that it was not in 1903, but in the 1800s, that the Wright brothers, working with kites, had worked out the key issue for flight: control.