Daniel Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: The part I'd like to see is the failure, who were the competitors in Europe. >
By 1911, there were 500,000 people frantically working on aviation, according to the Scientific American. Most were in Europe. In the U.S. there were the Wrights with a few dozen workers, and there were a few start-up companies. > How the brothers saw people "stepping over" them? Their opinions about the > new machines > Well, Wilbur died in 1912 and most of his time after 1909 was devoted to court cases for patent infringement. I do not know what he thought of the fantastic progress being made in Europe. In 1913, Orville improved the basic designs and went back to Kitty Hawk, where he set gliding records that stood for 10 years. So they were not completely left behind. However, by 1914, people like Sikorski and some of the Italians were building huge, multi-motor airplanes capable of carrying 16 people for thousands of miles. Nothing in the U.S. began to approach that. See the photo in my paper: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJthewrightb.pdf
