21st Century: Query 164 (Wilbur and Orville Wright)
“I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.”      ~ Wilbur Wright  was one of two American aviation pioneers/brothers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first successful airplane . They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft  with the Wright Flyer  on December 17, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina .    In what way was Wright spectacularly incorrect?   Is this typical inventor thinking? Why or why not?   Why might Wilbur Wright come to such an erroneous conclusion?