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To: BenLurkin

Wright Brothers should sue!.......................


9 posted on 04/02/2019 7:01:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

FYI...

Wright Brothers bike shop was just 3 blocks from my childhood home (thru 4th grade).

They also had their first test flights a few blocks away in an open field known as Huffman Hills.


44 posted on 04/02/2019 7:56:12 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Red Badger

Funny you should say that because in fact the Wright Brothers sued everybody for patent infringement. Their legal activities took the USA from the lead in aircraft manufacturing in roughly 1900 to just about dead-last by the advent of WW1 in 1914.

Glenn Curtiss at Curtiss Aircraft was one of the WB’s frequent legal targets. Ironically Curtiss & Wright ended up merging to from Curtiss-Wright Aircraft.


62 posted on 04/02/2019 8:34:14 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d*mned! The narrative of the day must be preserved!)
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