It could take off at will and fly around like any
conventional airplane.
Of course all that was cheating :)

Paul Lamar

Paul, The part that I find interesting is that the Wright Flyer that 
they have in the Smithsonian was built from sketches that one of the 
Wrights did from memory! ALL the efforts to be genuine may have been WRONG! Bill Jepson

True. Some of the projects took that into consideration.
Repaired by the Wrights of course after the crash on the day it first flew.
It was then shipped to England. The Wright flyer stayed in a museum in 
England for years and somebody over there made engineering drawings.

The drawings are still there in England. It was shipped back to the states 
"restored" and is now the one in the Smithsonian.

Paul Lamar
 
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