If You read Your own words again Longer Ron, there must have been a succesfull flight by the help of catapult and downsloped track, before the excercises was moved to the flat beach!
But wich flight of those did the Wrights rapport as the first??
None of us were present at Kittyhawk hence our perception of the events is solitarely out of written words. But who wrote it and have the words been twisted in the meantime ? And how much does national proudness affect on ones personal perception??