important thing i learned about the wright brothers was that they weren't clones, they weren't siamese twins, they were but two of the same people. they didn't work -- this image that these two tinkerers working together in harmony, yes, they had their stats but basically it was a swiss relationship in the back of a bicycle shop that resulted in the wright flyer. that isn't true. wilbur wright was the older brother and he was the older brother more than chronologically. wilbur pashtun orville was a great cressman, great technician at wilbur was a genius. i will discuss in a second what his genius count manifested itself in the wright airplane or in addition to being brilliant he could also be sarcastic. he could be dismissive. he could be overbearing, and he could be cruel, and he exhibited all of these traits from time to time toward his brother, orville. one example, 1980 orville is flying in fort myer near washington, d.c. to try to sell airplanes to the army, and the airplane crashed. and orville was horribly injured, broken femur, ribs, he was in the hospital for six weeks and orville l