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The Wright Brothers DID Invent the Airplane
Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles
A long rebuttal arguing that the Wright Brothers truly invented the airplane, responding to other YouTubers who credit others. It walks through the engineering breakthroughs the Wrights achieved, such as control and wind tunnel work.
HN commenters use it as a well-researched account of what the Wrights actually solved, in threads on airplane physics and invention credit.
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