Langley was a pioneer in research on heavier than air flight, ok? And he was working right up through the late eighteen hundreds to the early nineteen hundreds. He showed that you can't make a flying steam engine because the soght, the size of the engine you need to get power you need, weighs too much to actually lift the engine into the air. Sotat the physics and the engineering of that does not work out. But by then we had the right brothers, and they were clever, and, and so then they did it, nineteen o three. My point about langley is we can elevate something as heavy as a car. Its lowd to do that

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