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You continue to miss the point entirely. This isn't about aeronautical engineering. It's not about your definitions. It's not about your degree. It's not about
by crazygringo 2y ago
You continue to miss the point entirely.
This isn't about aeronautical engineering. It's not about your definitions. It's not about your degree. It's not about what came afterwards.
This is about semantic definition, and how definitions of thresholds are arbitrary to a large degree, and why it's valid to differ.
Your refusal to acknowledge that another point of view might have its own validity says a lot. But the world is a larger place than just your perspective. And that's something that has consequences far beyond anything to do with who invented the first airplane.
- WalterBright 2y agoThe consequences are that all modern aircraft can trace their lineage back to the Wright Flyer, not to any of the other contenders.
- crazygringo 2y agoThe definition of being first, and the definition of what modern versions are derived from, are two totally different things. The latter has no bearing whatsoever on the former. It's very interesting in its own right, but it's completely different.