how long and how far did Orville Wrighte fly during the Ketty Hawks first flight, how much did it weight?

On December 17, 1903, at 10:35AM, the Wright Brothers achieved their dream. It was a bitterly cold, windy Thursday, but the desire to fly, and a stove inside their camp building, kept them warm. Orville flew first that morning and later wrote about that "first flight."

"The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. This gave it a tendency to turn itself when started; so that it turned too far on one side and then too far on the other. As a result the machine would rise suddenly to about ten feet, and then as suddenly dart for the ground. A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the point at which it rose into air, ended the flight. As the velocity of the wind was over the ground against this wind ten feet per second, the speed of the machine relative to the air was over 45 feet per second, and the length of the flight was equivalent to a flight of 540-feet made in calm air. This flight lasted only 12 seconds, but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started."

Some technical specifications for the Flyer:

gasoline-powered engine weighed 179 pounds, delivered 12 horsepower

2 propellers, each 8.5 feet in diameter

propeller made of 3 layers of 1 1/8 inch spruce, glued together, shaped with hatchet and drawshave

wingspan = 40 feet, 4 inches

chord = 6 feet, 6 inches

wing camber = 1:20

total wing area = 510 square feet

horizontal forward rudder = 48 square feet

distance from nose to tail = 21 feet, 1 inch

unmanned weight = 605 pounds (including engine, propellers, and chain drive)

wing skeleton covered with white French sateen fabric

propeller shafts made of steel

Although the Wright Brothers are credited with the first flight of an heavier than air aricraft, powered and controllable, they were not the first to do so.

Jacob Broadbeck a school teacher from Fredricksburg, Texas flew in 1865 or 1866. His aircraft was actually more advanced than the Wright's however his power plant was his downfall. The only motor he had was a large spring that turned two propellers.

When Jacob released the propellers his aircraft rolled across the field (his plane had wheels the Wright's did not)and lifted into the air. He had flown for a short distance at tree top level when he needed to wind his "clock spring" motor. For some reason Mr. Broadbeck had failed to realize that a spring cannot unwind while being wound. His propellers stopped. He crash landed destroying his aircraft.

His financial backers saw no practical use for airplanes and refused to finance Mr. Broadbeck further.

There is a romer that Jacob may have helped the Wright's in the design of their aircraft.

Dubai - Houston 17 hrs Dubai - Sao Paulo 16 hrs 40 min Dubai - l. a. 16 hrs Dubai - Melbourne 15 hrs Dubai - new york 14 hrs, purely stayed for twenty-four hours earlier I flew again! Picked up the phone by potential of my mattress and tried calling room service after I were given domicile!!

I think it was 300 feet. The flyer had a top speed of 40 mph and could go as high as 30 feet.

he flew for 2 mins and the aircraft weight 200kgs