alt Hacker NewsThe Wrights were about 5 years ahead of their time. The Wrights went about it as an R+D project and calculated what the design must be, while the other developers were doing seat-of-the-pants designs which worked about as expected.
The Wrights were about 5 years ahead of their time. The Wrights went about it as an R+D project and calculated what the design must be, while the other developers were doing seat-of-the-pants designs which worked about as expected.
Except we don't do wing warping anymore, or take many design cues from the wrights at all.
Hard to say they were ahead when they were in an evolutionary dead end.