Wright Bros. patent has been missing for decades

[Joe]

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/the-wright-brothers-famous-1903-flying-machine-patent-is-missing/265041/

I had no idea. Had anyone else heard this? I read Harry Combs' Kill Devil Hill back during the Centennial of Flight days and don't recall any mention of it there.

[Allan_Lowson]

It'll never fly anyway.

For a start there's no space in the room I saw it in this summer.

Although the hallway on the upper floor of the museum is probably longer than the first flight!

[louross]

Well, of course it won't fly. They didn't even plan any spots for the CDUs; they even forgot the whole system!
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