Here is a long youtube illustrated talk titled
The Wright Brothers DOD invent the airplane.
It was probably motivated by all of the anti-Wright Brazilian critics.
It is a long two part video lecture.
There are no links because I have to post 5 times before I am allowed to post the links.
No one indicated that they wanted to investigate the Brazilian argument for making Santos-Dumont
the father of aviation. I can quickly list 6 of the Wright's contributions to the field. I have difficulty...
Most of the comments just suggested that the Santos-Dumont advocate was completely wrong.
No attempt was made to set the record straight.
Wilbur Wright did use a French engine in his demonstration flights in Europe. It was a a copy of the Taylor-Wright engine that had been built in Dayton...