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The Wright Brothers DID Invent the Airplane

Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles · 257.9K views · 2019-08-20 · 47:49

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A long rebuttal arguing that the Wright Brothers truly invented the airplane, responding to other YouTubers who credit others. It walks through the engineering breakthroughs the Wrights achieved, such as control and wind tunnel work.

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HN commenters use it as a well-researched account of what the Wrights actually solved, in threads on airplane physics and invention credit.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2023–2025

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dj_gitmo · 2025-03 · Recommendation

Check out Gregs Airplanes and Automobiles for really well researched aeronautic docs. He made one specifically about the Wrights [VIDEO]

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mcarmichael · 2024-07 · Recommendation

Control was an almost completely unaddressed issue before the Wrights took it up, even though it is also crucial to useful glider development. This video has a nice delineation of the collection of breakthroughs needed: [VIDEO]

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ahazred8ta · 2024-07 · Reference

Basically, understanding airfoils. Back in the 1840s they put miniature steam engines in model planes and got them to fly. There were powered ground-effect planes in the 1800s that had more powerful engines than the Wright Flyer, but the Wrights were the first people to invent the wind tunnel, so they had a better understanding of lift-to-drag and control surface issues. They adapted the flow-pattern analysis tanks used by ship designers. As mcarmichael said [VIDEO]

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