Originally Posted by
Jaybird
I think they intentionally used anhedral as the seabirds they observed had it.
Jaybird
It makes sense. They were no doubt looking for every advantage they could imitate from nature. They did a lot of testing with kites and I wonder if they explored the effects of dihedral..?
Back then, the other designers in the World had no concept of "bank to turn" and it looks like the Wrights experience with riding bikes gave them the intuition that planes should bank also.