That's just what I could find quickly on Google, accessible by all. A few years back I read David McCullough's biography of the Wright Brothers which told the

That's just what I could find quickly on Google, accessible by all. A few years back I read David McCullough's biography of the Wright Brothers which told the same story: https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-David-McCullough/dp/1476728755 https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-David-McCullough/dp/1... This site cites a couple of the pre-Wright naysayers: https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-impossible/ https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-imp...