What is your point? That the Wright brothers were not pioneers of flight? In that case, Winton also was not a pioneer in the automobile industry, as he too bui

What is your point? That the Wright brothers were not pioneers of flight? In that case, Winton also was not a pioneer in the automobile industry, as he too built on previous work. The Benz Patent-Motorwagen came out a decade before Winton's first car, which in turn built on previous work. Yet Winton called himself a pioneer. And people at the time definitely considered the Wrights pioneers. Eg, the Aero Club of the United Kingdom gave them gold medals in 1908 for their "pioneer work".