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Orville Wright   /ˈɔrvɪl raɪt/   Listen
Orville Wright

noun
1.
United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948).  Synonym: Wright.





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... Bleriot had crossed the English Channel; McCurdy had, in March, 1909, calmly pegged off sixteen miles in the "Silver Dart" biplane; Paulhan had gone eighty-one miles, and had risen to the incredible height of five hundred feet, to be overshadowed by Orville Wright's sixteen hundred feet; Glenn Curtiss had won the Gordon Bennett cup ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis


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