Relatedly, just listened to one of the oldest Engines of Our Ingenuity episodes: 32 -- Wright and Langley. > Curtiss went to work, strengthening the structure,

Relatedly, just listened to one of the oldest Engines of Our Ingenuity episodes: 32 -- Wright and Langley. > Curtiss went to work, strengthening the structure, adding controls, reshaping it aerodynamically, relocating the center of gravity -- in short, making it airworthy. In 1914 he flew it for 150 feet, and then he went back and replaced the old motor as well. On the basis of Curtiss's reconstruction, the Smithsonian honored Langley for having built the first successful flying machine.[...] In 1942 the Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Abbot, finally authorized publication of an article that clearly showed the Langley reconstruction was rigged. https://engines.egr.uh.edu/episode/32 https://engines.egr.uh.edu/episode/32