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Old 4th Jun 2014, 05:27
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Please. What is it that you are saying? What is your account of the first steps in powered controlled piloted flight? If the Wrights weren't "flying" in 1903, was anyone else?

It is really easy to find doubts about individual bits of evidence, and even documentary evidence is subject to bias, and the FAI definition of flight, by essentially requiring wheels, could be seen as being designed to exclude the Wrights.

So, what really happened? Or is the evidence so strong against any candidate that nobody was the first to fly? (Which is a possibility.)
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