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The Wright brothers were two American inventors who claimed they built and piloted powered heavier-than-air flying machines in 1903, 1904, 1905 and May 1908 and really flew planes in front of numerous witnesses, including personalities of the aeronautic world, starting with August 8, 1908, when...

Letter written by Octave Chanute, on January 19, 1908. He believed that the Wrights controlled their machines by "shifting the weight"!!! This belief of Chanute demonstrates he did not know too much about the construction of the Wrights' planes. His value as a witness is close to zero...

The ailerons were first patented by Matthew Piers Watt Boulton in 1868. They are not the invention of the Wright brothers. This case was closed long ago.

A strange dialog between two people (Root and Chanute) who claimed they had seen Wilbur and Orville flying in 1904 Chanute doubted the January 1, 1905, story of Root, also Chanute himself claimed in 1906 (Scientific American) he had seen the Wrights flying, on October 15, 1904. Anyway, Chanute...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0T82fz7UW0 Honestly, the 1902 Wright apparatus was not a great glider. It can be flown but it is unstable. Also, it is more a kite than a real glider. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWCrsDK-wc0 The Chanute-Herring machine, built 6 years before...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg46QLzO3b0 On December 17, 1903, W. Wright flew 852 feet in 59 seconds, with a 12 HP engine. 100 years later nobody was able to travel through the air, with the replica of the alleged 1903 flyer, more than 115 feet in a chaotic way. The 2003 engine was...

Another piece of evidence that shows Amos Root had not witnessed any flight up to November 9, 1905. In Root's November 9, 1905, letter, while informing his younger friends of Dayton he intended to ask his readers, in an article, for reports of flying machines, the old Amos, visibly...

Another puzzling affirmation of A. I. Root was in connection with the American aeronaut Augustus Roy Knabenshue. In an August 29, 1905, letter the old Amos expressed his concern that Knabenshue might finally use no balloon at all, advising the Wrights to get ahead of him. The question is why did...

A. I. Root has an article (dated September 1, 1908, and written after the flight demonstrations of W. Wright at Le Mans) with a really funny title. How could this man have written "not only out in the open" had he really witnessed W. Wright flying in 1904?! 1908-09-01, A. I. Root, “The Wright...

Another example of zero evidence that a flight performed by one of the two brothers really happened. This is the letter sent to the Wrights by Amos Ives Root, 48 hours after Root allegedly saw Wilbur Wright flying in a circuit. (In the January 1, 1905, issue of his periodical Root claimed he...

The pictures of the alleged 1903-1905 powered flights were first published in September 1908, after the August 1908 flights of W. Wright in France. THE CENTURY MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER, 1908, No. 5 THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' AEROPLANE BY ORVILLE AND WILBUR WRIGHT WITH PICTURES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS...

A plane, flying in a block of air (headwind, tailwind, lateral wind, etc.) that moves in a certain direction, is unaware the wind blows. The plane believes it flies in still air. The plane is like a boat going upstream, downstream or crossing a river. The relative speed of the boat is always...

Two physical impossibilities reported by Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute: 1) "While the new machine lifts at a speed of about 23 miles, it is only after the speed reaches 27 or 28 miles that the resistance falls below the thrust. ", Wilbur Wright, August 8, 1904 The plane lifted at 23 mph...

Had Chanute been convinced the Wrights had flown he would not have said in a talk: "the Wright brothers, whose flying machine is said to have been successfully tested on the 17th of December.". It is evident Chanute had some doubts. Octave Chanute to Wilbur Wright Chicago, January 1, 1904 I...

An example that shows the credibility of Wilbur and Orville is zero: - Orville Wright claimed 11 flights for May 9, 1908, in a letter to his sister. - Wilbur Wright mentioned in his diary that the machine remained indoors on May 9, 1908. 1) 1908-05-10, Orville Wright, “Letter to Katharine...