This is Fred Culick, after he had declared the Wright brothers are the first aeronautical engineers (an evident irony) he trashed them saying "Flyer I" was unstable and underpowered which means the 1903 plane could not fly.
A super pilot might be able teoretically to keep an unstable plane aloft but never an underpowered flying machine.
"12. BUILDING A FLYABLE (?) 1903 FLYER
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Given the terrible flying qualities and handling characteristics of the original Flyer implied by the discussion in Section 7.2 and more thoroughly by Culick and Jex (1984) and Jex and Culick (1985), building a flying replica of the airplane should raise questions. There were two serious problems with that machine: it was unstable about two axes and marginally stable directionally; and it was underpowered."
Source: "WRIGHT BROTHERS: FIRST AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS AND TEST PILOTS",
F.E.C. Culick, California Institute of Technology, Forty-Fifth Annual Symposium, The Society of Experimental Test Pilots, 26-29 September, 2001, see:
http://www.wrightflyer.org/wp-conten...est-Pilots.pdf
Note: The question mark in the title exists in the original article, it was not added by my.