Originally Posted by
gow589
Did you know for many years, the Smithsonian museum, because of the Curtis involvement, did not consider the Write flier to be the first airplane to fly. They worked very hard to discredit the Write bothers. Truth is, we believe others may have been before them but none documented like the Wright Brothers.
I did not know that.
There's also this......during their experimentation with Wright Gliders the Wrights figured out wing warping before they switched from a fixed vertical fin to a rudder. They made a rope system that moved the rudder along with the warping of the wings. So as of 1902 they had 3 axis control mastered with hundreds of successful glides.