Signed Orville Wright 1917 Check: "Lying in bed thinking about how exciting it would be to fly”

“I got more thrill out of flying before I had ever been in the air at all- while lying in bed thinking about how exciting it would be to fly.” -Orville Wright The conditions on the morning of December 17th, 1903, were perfect.  At 10:35am a man climbed onto the center of a wooden wing, brought it's engine to life, and prepared himself to change the corse of history.  That man was Orville Wright and he became the first man in history to maintain controlled, sustained flight, of a powered, heavier than air, aircraft.   The Wright brothers were not engineers and held no fancy degrees. Orville and his brother Wilbur owned a bicycle repair shop, but in 1896, the brothers became inspired with the idea of creating a machine that could fly, but it was their experience making bicycles that offered them a very different perspective.   For the next seven years their lives would be all about flight, and how they would achieve it.  Then on that Thursday morning in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, after