Wright Brothers for Kids: How They Invented the Airplane, 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight

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model It would be the biggest glider ever flown Surely it would fly better and farther than last year’s glider Unfortunately bad weather arrived with the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk Heavy rain drenched the beach and the Wright brothers camp for an entire week The winds constantly whipped around wet stinging sand When the rain finally let up a plague of mosquitoes moved in The sand and grass and trees and hills and everything was fairly covered with them Orville wrote to his sister Katharine back home in Dayton They chewed us clear through our underwear and socks Lumps began swelling up all over my body like hen's eggs Orville and Wilbur were soon ill from the weather and insect bites When the brothers were finally able to put their new glider together and get started trying it out things only got worse The new glider just wouldn't fly as it was supposed to The wings didn't seem to lift the glider high up into the air as they should based on the brothers careful design And the new system of wing controls wasn't working either When Wilbur tried to steer the glider it would sometimes spin out of control In fact the glider was turning out to be dangerous One day as Wilbur flew over the sand the glider's left wing dipped When Wilbur used the controls to try to level out the glider it crashed into the sand The glider's front was badly smashed and so was Wilbur He had a black