Orville Wright

Certified Authentic Autograph on Receipt (C 224). Orville Wright (1871-1948). Together with his brother Wilbur, they are Americans, who in most countries of the world are recognized as having the priority of designing and building the world's first aircraft (a dispute over primacy with Alberto Santos-Dumont) capable of flight, as well as making the first controlled flight of a man on a heavier-than-air aircraft with an engine. . Although the Wright brothers were not the first to build and fly an experimental aircraft, they were the first to control such flight in the air, which made possible the further development of aircraft construction in the world.