NOVA: Wright Brothers Flying Machine

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tags: orville, wilbur, kitty hawk, history

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But the Wright Brothers DIDN'T invent the modern airplane. Virtually none of their inventions are used in modern airplanes. Their concepts like "wing warping" were unstable and one of the main reasons the Wrights were responsible for the first passenger fatality. The more I learn about the Wrights, the less respect I have for them. They built a glider, stuck an engine on it, launched it with a catapult, published the resulting "powered flight" in a beekeeping magazine then spent the next five years suing everyone else who was actually building real airplanes that could take off from the ground on their own power, had ailerons and a rudder and were controllable and safe to fly.

Read about the REAL father of flight, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, a man so far ahead of the Wrights technically that he built a 8 cylinder motorcycle and set a land speed record of 137 mph...in 1907.

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Damn, doesn't work in the UK (not for me anyway! Get a 'This video is currently not available' on the embed, and 'We're sorry, but the provider of this video has not authorised Google to display this video in your location' on its page).

written by benjee

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^ same for me

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*dead

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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by kulpims.

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