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 they'd bought a rocket engine at the aerojumble instead, but sadly their supply of A stoff and C stoff had been used up at rave parties 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.
's true, I tell you!