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Caretakers of the Sky: The Wright Brothers and Recording the Aerial Age

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Eventually, they returned to Ohio and created a wind-tunnel to create their own data, rather than rely upon data collected by other aviation pioneers, which they had been using up to that point but had proven to be inaccurate. Orville and Wilbur spent the next five years perfecting their designs and securing a patent.