Orville Wright

Aviation pioneer who, with his brother, Wilbur Wright, invented three-axis control and flew the first successful, albeit brief, "flying machine" in 1903. He dropped out of high school to pursue a career in the printing business with his brother Wilbur. He and his brother opened a bicycle repair shop in 1892. His parents, Susan Koerner and Milton Wright, raised him with his six siblings. His father once gave him a toy helicopter invented by Alphonse Penaud. One of his friends and classmat