Maybe too much wine, but I don't get this...
Again, another lie of the Wright brothers, that 62 pounds/HP at 38 mph was not a realistic figure, they could not have achieved such a performance before Dec. 1906 as long as about two years later their flying machines were considerably less capable sustaining just 35 pounds/HP.
As the machines improve the power to weight ratio improves, no? How can a ratio of 35 lbs/HP be "less capable" than 62lbs/HP. It's not - it's much better?
who had doubted them until 1908
I don't think even simplex disputes that. Even the title of the thread accepts the fact they flew (superbly) in 1908 - it's prior to 1908 that's the issue and in simplexes view, they only power-glided.
What I find amazing among the witnesses testimonies of 1903, is that no one noticed a 747 near the fight line?!...
