David McCullough with Ken Burns on The Wright Brothers 

How WONDERFUL that we have had him to teach us all our own history! Now, he would want us, I believe, to continue the effort and make certain young people truly know our history. We would not be in the fraught position we are today if people spent more time learning about our own history and less time watching political television. It is all about developing discernment.

You were expecting him to live forever?

True, but we gotta make room. I hope that all badasses are finding successors

Look how distinguished he was also, with a sureness of moral certainty, dignity and pride. I don't know. I really don't know if mankind can grow them like that anymore. Where can a man like this come from today?

@@jimlaguardia8185 It would be nice if his spirit does.

Very well said sir! Quite a remarkable collaborative achievement by two American treasures.

Did you know that their patents do not indicate the plane? they recorded a system for driving gliders where there was only a twist of wings, this was prehistoric. RESPONDER

there is no confirmation of flights between 1903 - 1905. The flights were quoted in papers and the machine never showed up to prove anything. historical fact,

EthioMod two shammers, Gay.

EthioMod - miracle, oh yes Saint shammers

incredible

I just said the same thing to my husband as I was watching this. Two of the most amazing men alive today.

Two national treasures and near pinnacles in their fields. RIP David 👏🙏😢

When I read David's books, I hear his soothing voice in my head. Amazing writer and narrator.

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perhaps news to you, GNathan

@@CFG-eb3my ?? What you just said makes no sense regarding my comment.

@@nathanfugate8210chill out grandma. You didn’t exactly impress and your comment hit with a great “thud”😂

I gave them credit for the propeller

Propellers like these already existed before the flyer, as well as the torsion of the wings and the wind tunnel, all wrongly credited to the wrigths! Look for more reliable information!

There were a few unfortunate errors in the talk, but by and large still a profoundly interesting overview of the Wrights. I was most jarred by the comment that Thomas Selfridge was the first to die in aviation. Perhaps in powered flight, but certainly not in the history of aviation.

I happened to meet Gustave Whitehead 's family who still live in Connecticut and they confirmed Gustave Whitehead did indeed fly in 1901.

@@JohnKSedor We have ample proof of the work of the Wrights and their first flight. What proof do the Whiteheads offer?

@@JohnKSedor I sometimes read that the Wright Brothers performed the first controlled flight. In other words they could make their plane go up or down or turn left or right by using wing warping.

shammers brothers

rui quesito fuck off you piece of shit. I'm sorry to be so vulgar but you nay sayers are so rude and troll like. Make an argument for Christ's sake!

The get the credit because they successfully commercialized aviation. You look at any invention and it's the one or ones that commercialized it that we remember.

@@michaeltalley51 thats cause the real innovator of airplane is alberto santos dumont

I do, but I’ve been flying since I was 14 so that probably aids me

What do most students and former students, today, really know about the Wright Brothers? McCullough told such important stories. I will miss him.

Ironically, Lt Selfridge aside from being in the Army, was part of Alexander Graham Bell's crew on his aviation project. If he hadn't been killed in the crash, he may have brought some secrets or insights from flying with the Wrights back to Bell.

That's class - to sit and enjoy his voice and resist any impulse to interrupt to tell him how much you appreciate his books.

I applaude your fine respect for him, allowing him to have an undisturbed dinner with his group. You are the kind of person he so respected, you are part of his inspiration to write of America's great, but little known people. bless you!!

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I just ordered the audio book as well. Looking forward to listening to the authors reading of his work.

At the Smithsonian, Air and Space Museum in Washington you can actually see their notes. It is incredible how two drop outs were able to figure out the physics involved in flight

Ironically, Selfridge aside from being in the Army, was part of Alexander Graham Bell's crew on his aviation project. If he hadn't been killed in the crash, he may have brought some secrets or insights from flying with the Wrights to Bell.

@@sparky6086 I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing that out.

Richard Mourdock good interview ? Submitt please official documents between 1903 1905 about flights in Huffman prayrie please, kkkkk no exist, no exist motorized flights between 1993 1905 dear.

That statement caught my attention also!

You haven't researched the whole L'Aerophile archive...

+rodolfo scwartzman oh my goodness, I did really believed that there was finally someone doing some research work with whom discuss this stuff. Then I did read your other comments and realized that is you again, Gilberto Barata Troxa Quesito. You just copied the text at wright-brothers.wikidot.com/ What a deception...

+rodolfo scwartzman a very intelligent conversation on your side, congratulations. Do you really need to hide under a fake profile to "prove" your point? Are really necessary the offenses, bad words etc? What a shameful person you are. Get lost. I don't know and I don't care who you are. With such attitude you will never prove your point. I can't imagine Alberto Santos-Dumont talking that way. He will hang himself again if he were to read your comments.

rodolfo scwartzman Fuck off Gilberto.

And you are FUCK WIT.

+warp13 - leon delagrange have one register - the brothers have conversations and newspapers comments without photos or concret proofs.

+warp13 LEON DELAGRANGE OFFICIAL REGISTER IN FAI 1907, WRIGHT BROTHERS HAVE A OFFICIAL REGISTER IN FAI 1908.

+warp13 THE RECOGNIZED 1908 FOR 1903 ATEMPORAL REGISTER THIS REGISTER DON'T EXIST.

+warp13 THE RECOGNIXED 1908 IS A SIMPLE PAPER WITHOUT HOMOLOGATION. ATEMPORAL REGISTER DON'T EXIST.

,+warp13 - PRESENT PLEASE CORROBORATIVES DOCUMENTS USA GOVEENMENT PLEASE

Me too, but until we get that you are welcome to join me trolling. ^_^

Perhaps a Portugese comment blocker. Santos Dumont hopped a flimsy box kite uncontrollably for 37 feet in 1906. Margaret Dumont flew farther and higher than that from one of Zeppo's pranks.

+warp13 - 1908, 1908, 1908 1908 -- 1903, 1904 1905 no exist anything about flights.

+Barata Barata OK Gilberto

ok, you proof the incompetence for wright brothers's flights. between 1903 and 1907 this two idiots never proof the flights events in huffman prayrie and usa germany, france and england called these two idiots for register first airplane and these two idiots desapearence. Never business nothing, never register the airplane before DUMONT. motorized glider don't to be the airplane. the real capcvity for flights and photos footaes and declarations appearence 1908 in 1903, 04 or 1905 never appearence nothing.

your indications are ridiculs, archadeon declarations are 1908 or 1909. in 1905 the archadeon called the brothers for flights and great award for only 100 meters flights. the brothers pufffff. locked for you idiot. no contact.

+Barata Barata why the new alias? Enjoy the conversations with yourself?

+Gaitaboa Gaitaboa The Wrights flew in 1903.

+warp13 wright brothers flew in 1903 in dreams.

+Barata Barata No they flew at Kill Devil Hills, there is plenty of proof. They also flew before many hundreds of spectators and took as many pictures. In 1908 they were considered the Monarchs of the air ....and hailed as the true inventors of the aeroplane.

in 1908 these two idiots appearence in flights in 1905 THE usa army declare THESE GENTLEMENS DON'T PROVEN ANYTHING.. - THE PATENT DON'T IDENTIFICATED TEH AIRPLANE, THESE TWO IDIOTS HAD THE AIRPLANE AND DON'T PRESENT ANYTHING? PLANATORS DON'T TO BE AIRPLANES. IN 1903 DON'T PROVEN THE EVENT. BETWEEN 1903 AND 1907 NEVER PRESENTED THE REAL CAPACITY FOR MOTORIED FLGIHTS. THE USA GOVENRMENT SPEACK ABOUT - THESE TWO GENTLEMENS DON'T PROVEN ANYTHING.

+Barata Barata No, the Wright Brothers dreamed then flew....

Maybe, maybe not: “A minority of commentators claim that the No. 21 flew, but the majority of historians reject these claims. Whitehead was quoted in a July 26 article in the Minneapolis Journal, credited to the New York Sun, in which he described the first two trial flights of his machine on May 3. Andrew Cellie and Daniel Varovi were mentioned as his financial backers who also assisted in the trial flights. The machine was unmanned and carried 220 pounds (100 kilograms) of sand as ballast and flew to an altitude of 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 m) for an 1/8 of a mile (200 m). According to Whitehead, the machine flew a distance of 1/2 mile (790 m) during its second test flight for one and one-half minutes before crashing into a tree. He also explained his desire to keep the location of any future experiments hidden to avoid drawing a crowd who might make a "snap-shot verdict of failure".[2] Drawing in the Bridgeport Herald of No.21 aloft. In an article in the August 18, 1901, issue of the Bridgeport Sunday Herald a reporter states that he witnessed a night test of the machine, at first unpiloted and loaded with sand bags, and later with Whitehead at the controls. The story was reprinted in the New York Herald, the Boston Transcript and the Washington Times, which ran it on August 23, 1901. Within months, the story ran in nine other newspapers in all parts of the country, as far away as California and Arizona.[2] A drawing of the aircraft in flight accompanied the Sunday Herald article. According to Whitehead and a reporter who claimed to have witnessed the event, the monoplane's longest flight was 200 feet (61 m) above ground for one-half mile (0.80 km). Whitehead's supporters say that he made four flights that day, which resulted in conflicting accounts from different witnesses. The conflicts have been used by opponents of the claims to question whether any flights took place. These claims are rejected by mainstream historians. Whitehead did not keep a log book or document his work. In 1980 aviation historian C. H. Gibbs-Smith called the story a "flight of fancy".[5] A minority of commentators have supported Whitehead's claim to have flown the No. 21 and this has caused some controversy. In 2013 an editorial by Paul Jackson in the influential industry publication Jane's All the World's Aircraft credited Whitehead as the first man to build and fly a powered heavier-than-air flying machine.[6] The corporate owner of Jane's subsequently distanced itself from the editorial, stating "the article reflected Mr. Jackson's opinion on the issue and not that of IHS Jane's".[7] Tom Crouch, senior curator of aeronautics for the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, studied evidence for the alleged flight and in 2016 he issued a strong rebuttal, noting many other authorities who had already done so.[8]”

They said the reason for the canard was that they thought it would be easier to fly by being able to see how the elevators were moving. It was an assumption that yes, caused difficulties. They were not the only ones that had the idea. Santos Dumont's early designs like the 14bis also used a canard. Although that aircraft design had no rudder or roll control, so it was even worse off.

Wanted David McCullough to archive contractual obligations to cloud net terminology in nasa

May I ask your opinion about Charles Lindbergh? Did you know his son was a US Congressman...

It's still bad when westerly winds blow. However, the black flies are more of a menace since insect repellant don't seem to bother them.

:P

The Wrights specified ailerons as well as wing-warping in their patent granted in 1906, but you may be right that Curtiss was the first to use them. I have also read "Wilbur and Orville" by Fred Howard, which gives a fuller account of the Wrights' aviation contemporaries.

the ailerons was invented by BOULTON in england. exist official register in england trademarcks

McCullough's book mentions that.