skyhighfallguy where do you get your inferiority complex from?
I had to go back to your post 27 to get a sense of the issue. You challenge people to disagree with, in my view, a rather stupid statement:
And, it does so happen that every major aviation triumph was american. Anyone care to offer another opinion?
then fail to consider any other view but your own when you are so clearly wrong.
Shouting (or the internet equivalent) really doesn't work, especially when everyone else sees you as being wrong.
Rarely in science and technology does anybody come up with a totally new idea, invariably these are extensions of research carried out previously; the Wrights combined prior knowledge and got it to work.
BTW GBR licence has no pictures on it, they add nothing of value.