On 9/4/2008 2:12 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
> Exactly right. That's a huge mistake now, just as it was in 1908. Not > only did the Wrights refuse to demonstrate, they did not bother to > send photos of their flights to the U.S. Army officials. BLP, to its > credit, has published more information than the Wrights did. However, > it is mainly academically oriented, scientific information, similar > to what the Wrights published in the proceedings of the Western > Society of Engineers, 1901. This is an excellent paper: > > http://www.wright-house.com/wright-brothers/Aeronautical.html > > . . . but in 1901 you had to be an attentive expert to see that it > represents most of the solution to the problem of flight. > > Note that this paper is similar to the seminal papers on computers by > von Neumann, Goldstein and others in 1946, such as "First Draft of a > Report on the EDVAC." These papers are easy for us to understand > because we know all about computers. But they were difficult for > people to grasp when they were written. Novelty impedes comprehension. > I think the situation with BLP is very different from that of the Wright Brothers. As far as I know, BLP is the only group actively researching hydrinos, whereas the Wrights were not alone in their quest to develop controlled powered flight. Harry
