MMmmmm K.
He traveled 700 feet in 16-18 seconds on some glider covered in feathers?
Well, he was traveling about 40 miles per hour.
How did he land and stop his vehicle at that speed?
And the Wright Brothers legacy isn’t in peril:
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first sustained, controlled flights in a powered aircraft.
40 mph would be 58 ft/s, he flew about 30 miles per hour.