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In 1903, when the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, the world’s leading expert on flight was Samuel Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, backed by $50,000 of U.S. War Department money (millions today). Langley employed the best engineers, the best materials, and the best academic minds. His aircraft crashed twice, publicly, disastrously. desperateamateurs libra desperate amateurs