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Fort Meyer, 1908. Orville trying to regain control of the Wright "Flyer" as it plummets to the earth. Lt. Thomas Selfridge, his passenger, was the first fatality from a powered flyer . Moment of impact--Ohio, 2009. The crash of a Wright Flyer replica that critically injured pilot Mark Dusenberry. Looking at the Wright "Flyers,"  T hen and Now "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again  and expecting different results" --attributed to Albert Einstein Even up to the present day, Wright "Flyers" have proven both dangerous and deadly.* As recently as 2011, the crash of a Wright "Flyer" replica tragically killed two pilots, Don Gum and Mitchell Carey. This incident is a continuation of Wright "Flyer" accidents that began years before the Wrights went public with the "flyers" they built in 1908. Trying to fly a  "replica" of a Wright "Flyer" has proven hazardous--and som...

________________________________________________________________ The Wright Flyers' Adventures in Wonderland "Curiouser and curiouser "-- Lewis Carroll ___________________________________________________  Do We Know Where the Real Wright "Flyer" Is? The Answer Is: Not Really. There is little to no believable evidence that the original Wright "Flyers" exist reconstructed anywhere in the world. Claims that they do are based on the narratives of Orville Wright, whose tales have been proven to be questionab le at best and absurd at the very least. P lease see "More 'Errors,' 'Inaccuracies,' and 'Whoppers' by Orville Wright..." in this blog. History can not or should not be written on the word of one or two brother s , both who had a great deal to gain in  fame and fortune by convincing the world and the courts to accept their claims. Their bias goes without saying. ______________________________________________________...

  " 'How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?' "I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."-- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  A display of the claimed "Wright Flyer I" at the Smithsonian Institution Ask almost anyone where the original "Wright flyer" is and the answer will be, "At the Smithsonian, of course. Everyone knows that!" Well, sometimes "everyone knows" what they actually don't know. I saw the claimed "Wright flyer" myself years ago. It confronted you then, suspended overhead at the entrance of the Smithsonian's Art and Industries Building. At the time, who knew that no other plane is permitted to intrude on your view of the flyer or compete with its primacy? Who knew that there was (and still is) a contract that the Smithsonian had made with the Wright estate/family that specifies how it is to be displayed, inclu...