Failures:
- The Duke University professors expressed that the Wright brothers owe some credit to the failures of aviation pioneers before them.
- Otto Lilienthal taught the brothers that shifting of the body weight was not a good enough turning mechanism in a flying mechanism.
- Their first device was suppoesed to fly like a kite but it didnt due to not having the correct force to push it
- The first powered flight only lasted about 12 seconds,which was a big let down because of all the adjustments
- The government tried to shut down their operation multiple times.
- They ran out of money to build their planes.
- Despite their mastery of important factors that were vital in created an airplane, the plane they successfully flew in was quite unstable.