Just exactly uneducated, but proud, can the bureaucrats be, when they know nothing of the Wright Brothers aircraft design?
(Bragging moment, I found out when working through my family tree, that I'm distantly related to the Wright family )
The mistake has also reignited one of America's longest running debates: Who can claim credit for the Wright brothers' first flight?
Ohio and North Carolina have long been at odds over which state gets to lay claim on the brothers' achievement. Ohio claims that, as the pair originally hailed from the state and the plane they completed their 39-second flight in was built in Dayton, it should get the credit
But the flight itself actually took place at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, And the North Carolinian newspaper, the Charlotte Observer, joked: "Let's talk about which state Kitty Hawk is in."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59008039
for historical accuracy, Ohio is fraudulently self promoting a lie. The wright Brothers were years behind the accomplishments of Gustave Whitehead in Ct, who accomplished flight 2 years prior, but didn't have friends in high places, and a deal worked out with the Smithsonian. Frankly, they were geniuses at self promotion too.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-wright-brothers-had-really-good.html
Thanks Gary!
Silly Ohio, Everyone knows North Carolina is First in Flight
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, the Langley plane that was flown weeks before the Wright Brothers' flight and fell into the Potomac River, was restored by Glenn Curtis to exact operating condition and flown in 1913. It worked! Also of note is that Glenn Curtis made many advances in flight and patented very few so that more people would work on the airplane and bring it forward. While the Wright Brothers awaited lawsuits to be settles, Glenn Curtiss' fixed wing airplanes were flying. No one use the "flex wing" concept of the Wright Brothers. History that is not told in our schools.
ReplyDeletevery good point!
DeleteI thought I'd posted about the Langley aircraft, but it looks like I didn't, only mentioned it in passing. I know I've seen several articles and photos about it... as Langley was the director of the Smithsonian