The formula that Noodles asked about are clearly evident in Hargraves and the others work, as was notes on the manned flight testing in towed glider mode, in mastering the tricks of control every which way.
I also believed and still do that the true merit of the Kittyhawk experiments was their invention of an engine light enough to do the trick.
Research is a compellingly interesting subject I often find, for instance who would have thought that the first powered flight in OZ was acheived by the illusionist Houdini. The first one to do it in a craft of his own construction, a gentleman by name of Badgery, a la Badgerys creek, site of the proposed second airport for sydney.
And speaking of doing silly things in machines aeronautical, another of the same Badgery's line, Peter, later had a bbit of explaining to do when the P51 that he was flying when supposedly doing formation intercept practise at 33,000 feet had an engine failure due to its radiator being stuffed full of galah feathers. The aircraft sat on the mud flats near Townsville for many years.
My dear old departed dad, his flight leader at the time reckoned it was an 'interesting conversation' that he had with the boss later, at attention of course.