Message from @DanielKO
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You just put a engine
On a something that looked like it could fly
See what happened
"Rajneesh, how does this work?"
"Fuck man, Vishnu maybe?"
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.
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.
You know, if you can dedicate your life to the study of something that doesn't exist yet, you have to be rich.
I didn't knew about this part
that's why i said
That's the mental image I always had, the Wrights struggling to preserve and repair the only engine they had, while Santos-Dumont being the rich guy that made balloons and later airplanes for fun.
idk about them
what i know is
Santos flew a plane in the middle of Paris
they didn't
I'm guessing they couldn't afford bringing their plane to Paris.
they plane was a planner, right?
their*
>In 1908, after the Wrights' first flights in France, Archdeacon publicly admitted that he had done them an injustice.
>The Wright brothers made no flights at all in 1906 and 1907. They spent the time attempting to persuade the U.S. and European governments that they had invented a successful flying machine and were prepared to negotiate a contract to sell such machines.
>Replying to the Wrights' letters, the U.S. military expressed virtually no interest in their claims. The brothers turned their attention to Europe, especially France, where enthusiasm for aviation ran high, and journeyed there for the first time in 1907 for face-to-face talks with government officials and businessmen.
It's kinda funny how only a few years later, airplanes would play an important role in WW1.
weird