> > It was as if the Wright Brothers had completed that first flight and then packed up and returned to Ohio to sell bicycles.
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> You know, this sentence made me realize that I have no idea what the Wright Brothers DID do after that first flight. As far as I know, they could have flown that first time and then died in a plane crash the next week. Well, maybe not.
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> > Howard
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> Don Monkey

Just for the record, they continued to build airplanes, flying further, and higher. Some of their planes were for the government, and others for their own experiments.

I watched the attempt to repeat their first flight a hundred years later, with a replica of their "Flyer." And like others, I was disappointed when the 21st century Flyer failed. The Wrights were perfectionists and sticklers for detail. The people who built the replica, were just following a design.

What was interesting to me is that another group built a replica using modern materials and modern technology. It looked the same, but it flew beautifully.
Howard