Except for those "drag alieron" / "adjustable wingtip" / "whatever they were
calling them" thingies on the Silver Dart, and one other earlier machine whose
name escapes me... unless you have definative photographic evidence to the
contrary.

And lets not forget that our old pal Curtiss used a "black box" actuating
mechanism on his early machines... I am assuming that you know what that was
and how it worked. And all of this happened in what year? 1906? 1907? 1908
even? Need I remind you that the Wrights were flying figure-8's for 45+
minutes by 1905?

And as for Petit Santos, well the 14 bis did manage to get into the air in 1906
(correct me if that date is wrong) by using 5 times the horsepower of the
Wright machine. BUT, it only "flew" for about 60 meters and it couldn't turn.


Harry