Utah State Wright Flyer to Be Featured on the Learning Channel

Utah State's Wright Flyer Project will be featured on The Learning Channel's program Ultimate Ten on Feb. 23 and 26 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 24 and 27 at 11 p.m. MST. Utah State students and faculty have built a full-scale replica of the original Wright brothers' airplane.


Students and faculty members from the mechanical and aerospace engineering department made up the design team. Students from the industrial technology department comprised the build team. The students, along with their faculty mentors, have dedicated more than 10,000 hours of effort to designing and building the plane.

The group teamed with the Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University Research Foundation and the U.S. Air Force to build the USU Wright Flyer. The Utah State students were given the challenge to design and build the flyer using space-age materials, the way the Wright brothers might have done if they were
designing the plane today.