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The Wright Brothers went on to have a lot of recognition and admiration

for their achievement.

No one has ever heard of Langley…

Both lived in the same time period, and had the same technology
available to them. Langley had a lot more funding, and a much

larger team.

So why did the Wright Brothers succeed, while Langley did not?

One historian put it like this:

“Langley had spent most of four years building an extraordinary

engine to lift their heavy flying machine. The Wrights had
spent most of four years building a flying machine so artfully

designed that it could be propelled into the air by a fairly
ordinary internal combustion engine.”

The Wright brothers approach of making the plane fly before applying
high power was the superior one.

(c) Matt Lloyd,
www.mobe.com