They said the Wright Brothers were “kooks” too, that heavier-than-air flight was “nutty” - sometimes new ideas must put up with the insults from the peanut gallery.
Following the Constitution .... what a nutty idea!!
They said that paleoPaulie, Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, the Unabomber and Jeffrey Dahlmer were nuttier than than fruitcakes and.....they were, ummmm, absolutely right! Just because the Wright Brothers knew what they were doing does not mean that paleoPaulie is not a certifiable lunatic. Thanks for playing anyhow.
Sometimes the peanut gallery is right.
Can you cite a single person who ever said that about the Wright bros. or heavier-than-air flight? Heavier-than-air flight then was like flying to the moon in Kennedy's time: a technological goal which most educated people believed was within reach of existing technology. Lots of people were working on it, and the Wright bros. got there first. It was not "nutty" or "kooky."