After their historic flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright returned to Dayton, Ohio. They spent the next few years making adjustments and building additional versions of their powered aircraft in their bicycle shop.
Confident that they knew how to construct a reliable flying machine, the brothers turned their attention to finding practical applications for it. They believed that airplanes eventually would be useful for recreation and transportation. But they realized that the first useful employment of airplanes would be in military capacities. So, they wrote to the U.S. War