Hey Andy,
I just read in the paper that one of your fellow RIT staff lounge lizards, Prof. Kockersberger ditched the Wright brothers replica in front of George W. Luckily RIT got its reputation from the optics department and not mechanical engineering eh?
Greg
It's all controversial anyway and much as we here hate being beaten by New Zealanders, this is reasonably compelling. Earlier, higher, further?
AndrewF
http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/pearse/pearse.htm
http://www.destination.co.nz/temuka/pearse.htm
http://www.billzilla.org/pearce.htm
http://www.mark.nagy.com/new-zealand/first-in-flight.html