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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...

Thanks for catching my typo. The date of course was 1908.

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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...