Editing Wright brothers (section)

===Toward flight===
[[File:Park Ranker Wright Brothers Memorial.JPG|thumb|Park Ranger Tom White demonstrates a replica of the Wright brothers' 1899 box kite at the [[Wright Brothers National Memorial]].]]
On July 27, 1899, the brothers put [[wing warping]] to the test by building and flying a biplane kite with a {{convert|5|ft|m|adj=on}} wingspan, and a curved wing with a {{convert|1|ft|m|adj=on}} [[chord (aeronautics)|chord]]. When the wings were warped, or twisted, the trailing edge that was warped down produced more lift than the opposite wing, causing a rolling motion. The warping was controlled by four lines between kite and crossed sticks held by the kite flyer.  In return, the kite was under lateral control.<ref name="hc">{{cite book |last1=Combs |first1=Harry |title=Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers |date=1979 |publisher=TernStyle Press, Ltd. |location=Englewood |isbn=0940053020 |pages=68–71}}</ref>

In 1900 the brothers went to [[Kitty Hawk, North Carolina|Kitty Hawk]], North Carolina, to begin their manned gliding experiments. In his reply to Wilbur's first letter, Octave Chanute had suggested the mid-Atlantic coast for its regular breezes and soft sandy landing surface. Wilbur also requested and examined U.S. [[National Weather Service|Weather Bureau]] data, and decided on Kitty Hawk<ref>{{cite web|url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ssd?id=mdp.39015003322461;seq=87;num=23 |title=The papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, including the Chanute-Wright letters and other papers of Octave Chanute. Marvin W. McFarland, editor., v.1. – Text-only – Full View |date=September 13, 1900|publisher=McGraw-Hill / HathiTrust Digital Library|access-date= March 19, 2017|quote=I chose Kitty Hawk because it seemed the place which most closely met the re-quired conditions. In order to obtain sup-port from the air it is necessary, with wings of reasonable size, to move through it at the rate of fifteen or twenty miles per hour. ... If the wind blows with proper speed, support can be obtained without movement with reference to the ground. It is safer to practice in a wind, provided this is not too much broken up into eddies and sudden gusts by hills, trees, &c.}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=The papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, including the Chanute-Wright letters and other papers of Octave Chanute. (Book view) |page=23 |date=September 13, 1900|publisher=McGraw-Hill |hdl = 2027/mdp.39015003322461}}</ref> after receiving information from the government meteorologist stationed there.<ref name="WDL"/><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.loc.gov/collections/wilbur-and-orville-wright-papers/articles-and-essays/collection-highlights/kitty-hawk/ |title=Letter from J. J. Dosher, Weather Bureau, to Wilbur Wright, August 16, 1900 Kitty Hawk |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] – Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers|access-date=March 19, 2017}}</ref>

Kitty Hawk, although remote, was closer to Dayton than other places Chanute had suggested, including California and Florida. The spot also gave them privacy from reporters, who had turned the 1896 Chanute experiments at Lake Michigan into something of a circus. Chanute visited them in camp each season from 1901 to 1903 and saw gliding experiments, but not the powered flights.