1900
17 ft span · 165 sq ft
A small glider built on the best published figures, flown off the dunes at Kitty Hawk.
~ COMING LATER IN 2026 ~
Fly four years of real machines.
Before the famous twelve seconds, there were four years of crashes, wrong numbers and sand in everything. Wright Brothers: Trial by Wind puts you on the wing for every one of them.
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Flight characteristics · reconstructed from the record
Every year flies the way it really did.
Each machine handles like the real one. Let the 1901 glider’s nose drop and it will pitch into the sand. Bank the early 1902 glider and it will slide and dig a wing, until the rudder learns to move. You feel the progress in your hands.
~ Five seasons, five machines ~
1901
22 ft span · 290 sq ft
A bigger wing that flies worse. The nose drops without warning and turns go wrong.
Winter 1901
38 wing sections tested
Back in Dayton. Build a wind tunnel, test wing after wing, and prove the tables were wrong.
1902
32 ft span · movable rudder
Your own figures, a new tail, and a sleepless night that leads to the movable rudder: the first aeroplane anyone could truly steer.
1903
40 ft 4 in span · 12 hp
An engine, two propellers and sixty feet of rail. Get off the ground, then stay up.
The 1901 camp · Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Read the wind.
Launch with the help of the camp crew, judge the wind, and glide down the dunes to the marked landing strip. Headwinds, tailwinds, wind that changes direction mid-flight, a sandstorm, and an engine that will not run smoothly.
~ 43 missions, three medals ~
Forty flights and three wind tunnel sessions. Earn bronze, silver or gold on every one.
~ The story between flights ~
Typewritten notes from camp and period photographs carry you from season to season, and a paper logbook keeps every flight you make.
Only 66 years from powered flight to the moon.
Relive the story.
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