Bad Predictions
"We hope that Professor [Samuel] Langley will not put his substantial
greatness as a scientist in further peril by continuing to waste his
time, and the money involved, in further airship experiments. Life is
short and he is capable of services to humanity incomparably greater
than can be expected to result from trying to fly...For students and
investigators of the Langley type there are more useful employments."
- The New York Times, December 10, 1903, exactly one week before the
first successful flight at Kitty Hawk.
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