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“Imported from content/11-engineering.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”
Revision 213 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/11-engineering.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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The Wrights built their own wind tunnel, found that the published lift data were wrong, and solved control, by wing warping, before power. In 1903 the New York Times had predicted flight would take a million to ten million years.

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Closed 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright.

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