@ Sarkus,
Birds fly, so it is reasonable to conclude that flight is possible, if not yet practical at that time.
The only photos of the flights of 1904–1905 were taken by the brothers. (A few photos were damaged in the Great Dayton Flood of 1913, but most survived intact.) In 1904 Ohio beekeeping businessman Amos Root, a technology enthusiast, saw a few flights including the first circle. Articles he wrote for his beekeeping magazine were the only published eyewitness reports of the Huffman Prairie flights, except for the unimpressive early hop local newsmen saw. Root offered a report to Scientific American magazine, but the editor turned it down. As a result, the news was not widely known outside of Ohio, and was often met with skepticism. The Paris edition of the Herald Tribune headlined a 1906 article on the Wrights "FLYERS OR LIARS?"
"FLYERS OR LIARS?" 3 years after flight was invented in 1903.
@ Sarkus,
Maybe your notion,
Birds fly, so it is reasonable to conclude that flight is possible
was not quite the warm and fuzzy reception the Wright Brothers received despite your fantasy.
In years to come Dayton newspapers would proudly celebrate the hometown Wright brothers as national heroes, but the local reporters somehow missed one of the most important stories in history as it was happening a few miles from their doorstep. James M. Cox, publisher at that time of the Dayton Daily News (later governor of Ohio and Democratic presidential nominee in 1920), expressed the attitude of newspapermen—and the public—in those days when he admitted years later, "Frankly, none of us believed it."[64]
But... but... Birds can fly, so it should be easy for a man (insane logic..).
They wrote to the U.S. government, then to Britain, France and Germany with an offer to sell a flying machine, but were rebuffed because they insisted on a signed contract before giving a demonstration. The American military, having recently spent $50,000 on the Langley Aerodrome—a product of the nation's foremost scientist—only to see it plunge twice into the Potomac River "like a handful of mortar", was particularly unreceptive to the claims of two unknown bicycle makers from Ohio.[67] Thus, doubted or scorned, the Wright brothers continued their work in semi-obscurity, while other aviation pioneers like Santos-Dumont, Henri Farman, Leon Delagrange and American Glenn Curtiss entered the limelight.
In 1906, skeptics in the European aviation community had converted the press to an anti-Wright brothers stance. European newspapers, especially in France, were openly derisive, calling them bluffeurs (bluffers) NOTE: This is 3 years after they had invented the airplane.[68]
Ernest Archdeacon, founder of the Aéro-Club de France, was publicly scornful of the brother's claims in spite of published reports; specifically, he wrote several articles and in 1906, stated that "the French would make the first public demonstration of powered flight".[69]
The Paris edition of the New York Herald summed up Europe's opinion of the Wright brothers in an editorial on February 10, 1906:
The Wrights have flown or they have not flown. They possess a machine or they do not possess one. They are in fact either fliers or liars. It is difficult to fly. It's easy to say, 'We have flown.'[68]
In 1908, after the Wrights' first flights in France, Archdeacon publicly admitted that he had done them an injustice
Wow!
All the skeptics calling them "bluffeurs" when you can just look at a bird flying and know it looks easy...
@ Sarkus,
So it appears not only were you wrong but very wrong.
If the Internet had existed then it is OBVIOUS it would have had its share of Trolls. This means that for every post that contributed toward discussion of the aircraft there would be a dozen trollers trying to attempt intellectual superiority, yet who were clearly idiots.
You keep asking for proof.
I suggest that...
a)
Only an idiot could expect proof of the paranormal in a internet thread. Even when laboratory setting experiments are submitted with double-blind procedures and locked doors they are met with scorn from Skeptics. (Maimonides Medical Center, Sleep telepathy experiments, etc.)
b) As shown above ACCEPTED SCIENCE (Wright Bros.) has been met with scorn
from idiots as well.
My attempts to prove things are ongoing, and if not to your satisfaction then tough (cry to someone else for a change). I am in contact with many people in this line of research. I have been in contact with various Mind Power organizations and have even exchanged emails with Prof Brian Josephson, etc.
When I continue with my method I would like to add one or more other techniques to aid the process. Despite your objections about the dates, I have shown good results publicly in the past and would like to do that again in the future using equipment that is alleged to aid perception. Imagine it as a foil cap if you like, but that is about as much as I will speak of it.
I understand a troll usually believes their viewpoint so I "get it". I think you will one day be proved an idiot, but I "get it". :blbl: