Message from @Alexmikli
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Basically
Why bother reverse engineering when you can just copy it whole?
Russia doesn't invent anything
Really
Communists fucked them hard
You're not wrong, yeah
well actually didn't the first couple of trains have boiler explosions on the regular?
And there were a lot of pre-Wright brother's planes that crashed constantly
I guess it really depends on what you consider the first plane and first car, too
"Pre Wright" airplanes are more like prototypes
In the dirst world war airplanes were already in vast use
Well a lot of those early cannons and rockets were essentially prototypes too
But yeah, you're right, they weren't really "known' to the public til they were at least capable of doing as advertised.
It took hundreds of years for the concept to be usefull
Like there were a lot of automatic handguns before the c93 Borschart but they fucking sucked.
The thing about arenautics there wasn't math or any calculations you could do
You just put a engine
On a something that looked like it could fly
See what happened
"Rajneesh, how does this work?"
Wright brothers had the advantage of being bike makers
Making compact light weight designs
They also need combustion engine technology to become efficient enough
To make a plane you need a good car engine to be invented too
To make rockets work you need good fuel and knowledge of ballistics
but any schmuck can stick an arrow to a firework and fire off 200 from a cart
I don't know much about the Wright bros, but it sounded like they couldn't afford many engines.
And then struggled to sell the invention.
And the fucking French called fake news on them (later apologized.)
about what?
The press there, were calling them frauds, liars.
About the plane?
Yeah, that they didn't fly, their plane didn't exist, etc.
that's because Santos Dummon flew in the middle of Paris
At a time the Wrights stopped doing public demonstrations because they didn't want anyone to copy their design.
Santos-Dumont was a rich guy, wasn't he?
idk about this tbh
>In 1906 skeptics in the European aviation community had converted the press to an anti-Wright brothers stance. European newspapers, especially those in France, were openly derisive, calling them bluffeurs (bluffers).
>The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, Santos-Dumont dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life.