CastleBee 09/25/2009
Orville maybe but that damned Wilbur...what a slacker!
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twansalem 12/23/2008
If they hadn't done it, someone else would probably have figured it out within the next 10 years or so. But there's no guarantee that they would have, and if flight had been delayed for several years, it's likely that things would have gone a little differently in the last 100 years or so. So I'll give them 4 stars considering how important flight is to today's society.
Chalky 11/10/2008
What about Orville Redenbacher? The popcorn genius
iloveboogers 03/10/2008
we need planes
XAgent 05/20/2007
Thanks to them it only takes about 10 hours with a layover to get to Hawaii.
BlueOrchid 05/20/2007
It's a good thing they had invented a new form of transportation by air. It was definitely risky because of all of the testing they had to do with their creation.
decalod85 04/13/2007
Powered flight is pretty important...
kaoruchan 11/09/2004
They were mildly important, but there are far more important people out there. They may have been the first to fly, but they certainly weren't the most successful. IMO, they are seriously overrated in their importance. It was an inevitability, with so many people trying to fly at the time. Their plane wasn't even that good of a design.
irishgit 03/08/2004
I'm torn a bit here, thinking that maybe they deserve a 4, but I just can't quite do it. Certainly important, but I think there are far more important figures here.
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