re: Wright Brothers, first flight 49 years before first B-52 flight

“Imagine all the people we can bomb with this new technology.” - Orville Wright
---In real life, they wrote that war would become obsolete because of the airplane. Historian David McCullough:
"The brothers thought it would be used for reconnaissance, which would be a deterrent to war, not a weapon of war. I thought Orville was very honest and very realistic when he said that, like the invention of fire, airplanes could be [used] for good or evil. And so it’s been."