Hey check this article out!
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/Columns/?Article=ForgottenFatherOfFlight
What's with the conspiracy of silence over this guy? The Wright Brothers had to bask in his glory and now he's almost totally forgotten. Sure he didn't technically invent the airplane, but look at what he did! He had already been using his motorized flying machine for regular nightly transportation to restaurants and nightclubs (tying his machine to light posts) by the time Orville and Wilbur managed to get their rickety awkward aeroplane a few feet above the Kitty Hawk beach!
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