baldwin was there and alexandra graham bell who lived in washington was there and the thing is bell and curtis were right there that a va experimental. this is something they put together to investigate flight and they did. they built some airplanes that flew up in canada. full in nova scotia and it was those airplanes that led to the june bud. so overall knows all of this. and industrial espionage was a thing. they painted all the exposed wooden parts of the airplane with paint. and one of the guys in the uae a, right there, is an lieutenant thomas cell fridge here's a letter that orville wrote to wilbur talking about what is going on in fort meyer this portion of the letter talking about this he was working with someone named benjamin floyd. at the top of the letter he said, i like him very well. but i would like to have this out of the way. i don't trust him. and he goes on to talk about how self ridge is always trying to hit him up for dinners. he is keenly interested in what makes the right airplane successful. but or vail knows this is a threat to what we are trying to do. they so