1906 they ran into a couple of brothers who have something to do with aviation, and wilbur and orville wright, and baldwin and curtiss seem to get along well and the wright brothers invited them back to their workshop for a chat. and what happened in that meeting is the single most controversial and pivotal meeting in the history of american aviation. the wright brothers later claimed that they told curtiss everything and he went off and stole their ideas. curtiss said this was nonsense. all he was trying to do was to talk generally and he was trying to sell the motors for the airplanes to the correspondence, a definite was trying to sell the motors because the letters would indicate that he was and the letters went back and forth and they were cordial. and also the notion that the wright brothers who would not demonstrate the airplane at the time to the heads of the military of germany, france, britain and the united states, we give all their secrets to curtiss seems a little far-fetched. but it is equally far-fetched that curtiss left that meeting with nothing. because shortly thereafter al