Early Adulthood
The brothers started a bicycle shop called the Wright Cycle Company. New safety bicycles were introduced and started a bicycle craze. They were skilled at repairing bikes and Dayton cyclists would bring their bicycles to the shop to be fixed. Soon, they began to manufacture their own bicycles and build a shack in the back of the shop for working on their hobbies in their spare time. They began to work on airplanes in 1899.
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“Do not let yourself be forced into doing anything before you are ready.” ~Wilbur Wright
They realized that control and balance were the keys to flight after reading all they could on flying and people who experimented with it. The brothers experimented with a biplane kite and worked on gliders before adding an engine. They invented a control system called "wing-warping" and added a flat surface to increase lift.