Animated Hero Classics The Wright Brothers (Season 2, Episode 3)
TV Episode | 30 min | Animation

Animated Hero Classics

The Wright Brothers (Season 2, Episode 3)

TV Episode | 30 min | Animation

Two bicycle repairmen embark on their dream to fly. With no formal training as either scientists or engineers, they study Lilienthal's diagrams for his glider and learn from experience the keys to controlled flight. As young boys, Wilbur ...See moreTwo bicycle repairmen embark on their dream to fly. With no formal training as either scientists or engineers, they study Lilienthal's diagrams for his glider and learn from experience the keys to controlled flight. As young boys, Wilbur and Orville Wright are full of ideas, enthusiasm and dreams. Above their bicycle repair shop they discover how birds are able to balance by tilting their wings - wing warping. They want to make a glider to do the same thing. "You have a dream, you should do it," their father encourages them. After writing to the "center of knowledge for flight'" Octave Chanute, they learn the best place to glide is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They tell Chanute about wing warping and make him promise not to tell anyone until they can perfect it. Their first attempts are unsuccessful, however, as they realize that Lilienthal's figures were incorrect. Wilbur and Orville begin experimenting with the figures. Meanwhile, others are beginning to take flight, but only in the beginning stages. Finally, Wilbur and Orville manage a controlled flight. All they need to do is add an engine. Chanute lets the wing-warping idea slip when he is challenged, but the Wright brothers are not worried - the rest of the world doesn't know how it works. After a 59 second flight, Wilbur and Orville take Santos-Durmont, the French flyer, up on his challenge to show the world they can fly in France and on August 8,1908 the Wright brothers demonstrate to the world the power of controlled flight. Written by Nest Family Entertainment See less

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Name	Known for
Robert Cottrell Orville (voice) Orville (voice) See fewer	Animated Hero Classics (1991)
Jake Williamson Wilbur / Parisian Husband / French Reporter (voice) Wilbur / Parisian Husband / French Reporter (voice) See fewer	The Brain That Wouldn't Die (2020)
William Dennis Hunt Bishop Wright (voice) Bishop Wright (voice) See fewer	Flesh Gordon (1974)
Brian Nissen Santos-Dumont (voice) Santos-Dumont (voice) See fewer	The Swan Princess (1994)
Mark Hunt Chanute (voice) Chanute (voice) See fewer	Animated Hero Classics (1991)
Bernie Van De Yacht Reporter (voice) Reporter (voice) See fewer	Prey (I) (2022)
Gregory Daven Dan Tate (voice) Dan Tate (voice) See fewer	The Swan Princess (1994)
Tim Fitzgerald Farman (voice) Farman (voice) See fewer	Bliss (2000)
Art Manke Voisin (voice) Voisin (voice) See fewer	One on One (2001)
Kristie Transeau Parisian Wife (voice) Parisian Wife (voice) See fewer	Paulie (1998)
Thom Marks Telegrapher (voice) Telegrapher (voice) See fewer	Animated Hero Classics (1991)

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