true flight is arbitrarily defined as the wrights' 1903 flight.
everything less is not true flight. anything better simply builds upon
the wrights' achievement.

Except for "arbitrarily", you have nailed it very nicely.

Nothing nationalistic in it, as far as I am concerned. In 1903 my
mother and father were living in Ireland.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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