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Joe Bullmer Rebuttal to Tom Crouch in the "Huffington Post"

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  The Wright Brothers" "Fourth Flight Picture" This photo is claimed by Wright historians to be the 852 feet flight at Kitty Hawk, December 17, 1903 Tom Crouch Article for the "Huffington Post" * by Joe Bullmer       It has come to my attention that Tom Crouch of the Smithsonian provided an article to Carroll Gray of the Huffington Post** concerning the Wright brothers testing at  Kitty Hawk in 1903. In this article, along with his usual litany of erroneous statements about this subject, he has totally misrepresented my judgments concerning the Wright brothers and the photograph said to represent their last test on December 17, 1903.      Having a Masters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Michigan with additional post graduate studies, I was a practicing aircraft design and performance engineer involved in intelligence analysis. This is the best possible background from which to assess the Wrights' various records of their work in