Oh dear! longer ron, that's such a tired, conventional excuse.
Surely you know the real reason Wilbur and Orville didn't go for a gas turbine was because their supply of A stoff and C stoff for the rocket engine had been used up and all they had left was the Briggs and Stratton from their rotorvator. They even had to re-distil some of Grandpaw's hooch to make it go as the local Shell station was closed that weekend due to the owner being at Oshkosh.
