regarding not correcting an article (bellyprop)
Have any of you ever tried to get a newspaper or now a days a tv network to correct an article? IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. I called CNN 14 years ago to correct something and they never corrected it on the air. It was a basic precept of flying and they got it wrong.
The artists conception in the article image above does show the pusher props, but much lower than they really were on the real FLYER WHICH WE HAVE A REAL PICTURE OF IT TAKING OFF, WITH A MAN (wilbur) next to it for scale.
What would a smart person do today?
Follow the advice of the leading patent attorney in the state of Ohio?
OR SHOW everyone in the world how to copy their method of control and get zip, nada, nothing for it.
AS to two axis control vs three axis.
For one moment, let's think about all the two axis planes built today. Planes that are big enough to carry human beings (plural)
Somebody please post pictures of all the two axis 747s, 757's (ad infinitum).
Oh, and pictures of flying machines that are on the ground don't count. Nor do artists conceptions of said machine flying over connecticut or anywhere else.
The Wrights were methodical in their note taking, and amazingly enough they took the most modern type of photograph they could to document their experiments. Over 300.
Getting back to the two axis control. I am amused enough to bring up the jimmy stewart version of "the flight of the phoenix" and the designer was a model airplane designer.
simplex refuses the real evidence (300 photos in the library of congress) and instead points to an article with a picture of a BAT MAN even larger than the artists conception of the wright flyer.
mods, do what you like. but if you are pilots , shut down this thread.