Recently had the chance to once again pick the brains of Prof. Alaric Searle of the University of Salford on the ongoing war in Ukraine

Reinventing the Wing; The Aircraft of Alexander Graham Bell
When the Wright brothers made the first heavier-than-air manned flight in 1903, the world was amazed. Well, mainly. Because there were quite a few people out there who had been working on the problem for some time, and some of those saw that first flight at Kitty Hawk...