thanks for the kind comments. I'm no idiot. the wrights invented the airplane.
but you didn't answer my question about who did invent the plane if the wrights didn't? and why did the us govt form a way of paying the wrights royalties on their patent in an expedited way?
and why does every US airman certificate have pictures of the wright brothers and their plane?
yeah, some people on pprune are going to rewrite history to make themselves feel better.