What If? The Wright Brothers Never Flew?

The core of the Wrights work was their carefull, extensive, and methodical tests using wind tunnels. No one else ran their ideas through a similar test regime. There was a lot of hit and a lot more miss in the less through or extensive test programs of the others. My guess is the developers with the better test regimes would have the advantage.



The brothers got a great boost being able to test on the cheap and let them test new ideas quickly, I wonder where they got the idea. There were major aircraft companies who didn't use wind tunnels for years after the Wrights.
 
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