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Old 16th Jun 2014, 21:29
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The propellers allegedly used by the Wright brothers on their 1903 Flyer. As can be remarked, they are identical to the ones of Le Girardot airship.
Are they really identical ?
The French ones are on paper - The Wright ones actually existed

Simplex - why do you feel the need to keep the 'alleged' accusations going ?
You never answer any questions - you just go onto some other quite often totally unrelated post !
You cannot copy any aerofoil design unless you have proper engineering drawings to work from - sure you can make something that looks similar but propeller calculations/theory are complicated and the Wrights matched their propellers to their engine power and drive system...
Just any old propeller copied from Andre or Alphonse would not have worked for them !
Also by 1905 they had improved their propeller design - I suppose they will have copied them from the french as well !
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