269. Richard Dawkins — Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
The Michael Shermer Show
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Aerodynamic Structures and the Right Brothers
There were a lot of glider experiments in the 18 nineties and just before the right brothers. They had, in a way, they had the aero dynamics already worked out. And then all they had to do wasat an engine. So their control of the wing, they hav this system called wing warping, which we don't have any more,. But they actually pulled strings to change the shape of the wing. That was their way of steering, rather than having alerons like modern planes do. Em there was of jealousy. A lot of people, as you rightly said, were trying to develop flight at the same time. The right brothers were not taken seriously because
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