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To: null and void

And it’s the early worm that gets to be a birds breakfast. Weisskopf was likely the first but the Wright Flyer was donated to the Smithsonian on the contractual condition that the museum would never allow a prior claim.


3 posted on 05/03/2013 9:17:28 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: muir_redwoods

Smithsonian wanted their boy, Langley, to be first. They would not want the Wrights’ plane for years. That’s probably the point of the “claim disallow”.


4 posted on 05/03/2013 9:52:07 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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