{"id":149329,"date":"2024-11-12T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wright-brothers-delayed-development-us-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:00:15","slug":"how-the-wright-brothers-delayed-the-development-of-the-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=149329","title":{"rendered":"How The Wright Brothers Delayed The Development Of The US Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be counterintuitive to suggest the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"276914\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wrightbrothers\/\"  >Wright Brothers<\/a><\/span> delayed the development of the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> (or rather the Aeronautical Division of the US Army Signal Corps), but that case can certainly be made (through endless litigation and patent trolling). It can also be argued that the Wright Brothers did not offer the world a revolutionary breakthrough. Instead, it is perhaps better to think of it as a logical, incremental next step. There is a reason why the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"276916\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wrightflyer\/\"  >Wright Flyer<\/a><\/span> has so many qualifiers: &#8221;        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2002029\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-did-the-wright-flyer-work\/\" >first heavier-than-air, powered, controlled, sustained flight<\/a><\/span>&#8221; (aka an airplane).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partly due to Wright&#8217;s legal obstructions, the US lagged behind European air forces in WWI and had to fly British and French fighter planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,412,423,1328,14411,4475,6650],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force","category-wright","category-wrightbrothers","category-wrightflyer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.10 - 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