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Old 03-19-2016, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Maki View Post
Did you read that recent biography by McCullough? The thing I found interesting was the amount of effort they spent simply convincing people that they had indeed achieved powered flight. Also, that the invention was 50% the airplane and 50% the technique of flying it.
Yes, that's the one. Maybe things caught on more slowly back then because you had to actually put some effort into finding out more about something instead of clicking a mouse.
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