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@ReflexFunds The media's failure to notice the invention of flight in 1903 was one of its most staggering failures in history. After the first flight, most reporters either ignored the news (either considering a short hop irrelevant, or outright fake). A couple published ridiculous, ...
@ReflexFunds sensationalized-to-the point-of-unbelievability accounts, which led the brothers to distrust the press, so they stopped sending press releases. Meanwhile they kept flying and improving outside Dayton. All the locals knew about this and regularly saw Wilbur flying overhead, but...
@ReflexFunds was essentially unknown outside the area - and claims about what was going on there were scoffed at by outsiders. It took a column written by a beekeeping supplier in "Gleanings in Bee Culture" in 1905 to get them attention. He had offered it to Scientific American, but they...
@ReflexFunds rejected it as imagined tripe. A year after Root's publication, Scientific American did write about the Wrights... only to dismiss claims that they'd been flying for years as absurd, because clearly if they were legit, some reporter would have noticed by then!

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uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0…
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Also, that public stances != actual goals, that actual goals have to be assessed.
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