> in the end made to happen by an unlikely pair Who spent years studying birds... No, the wings of the wright flyer don't flap, but that doesn't mean it wasn'

> in the end made to happen by an unlikely pair Who spent years studying birds... No, the wings of the wright flyer don't flap, but that doesn't mean it wasn't designed based on birds. One key piece (controllability) came as a result of the wright brothers studying how birds adjusted the shape of their wings.