Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote:
> at time of Wright brothers, US tried to catch the bandwagon by creating > "NACA", but probably state agency are no more adapted to modern innovation. > we see with DoE. > The NACA was formed in 1915. By that time European aviation was getting massive amounts of war funding. The U.S. did not catch up until after the war. After 1918, the NACA did an excellent job, and by the mid-1930s the U.S. dominated the industry, especially civilian aviation. Orville Wright was a permanent member of the NACA Board. He was very shy and seldom commented. Historians say that Wilbur made more intellectual contributions to the invention, and he was a superb writer. Orville made many practical contributions. He also came up with the movable vertical tail, which was the last step in 3-axis control. They were both superb at engineering physics. - Jed
