To: Lazlo in PA
I don't recall the Federal Govt' subsidizing the Wright Brothers The Wright Brothers did have a contract from the Army, beginning in 1908.
To: wideminded
The Wright Brothers did have a contract from the Army, beginning in 1908.
To develop man made flight or to buy a new technology that could be purposed for warfare? The comparison is not even in the same ballpark.
68 posted on
02/07/2012 3:34:20 PM PST by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: wideminded
Yeah, but that was five years after the proof of concept. The contract was to develop a model for military use and to train the first pilots. The army didn’t subsidize the development and testing, they bought a proven product.
82 posted on
02/07/2012 3:57:31 PM PST by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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