July 11, 2003
The Wright Stuff
When Utah State University students set out to build a replica of an aircraft the Wright brothers flew in 1905, it was no fly-by-night operation. It took almost three years and more than 10,000 hours of effort to bring the design up to date.
The project took off after several students in aviation maintenance and management volunteered to build the airplane, which is based on a more stable design than the Wright brothers' original 1903 model, for the centennial celebration this year of
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