@ttyymmnn I don't know where to start, one of my high school teachers, Paul Adams, was a Tuskegee Airmen. Remember my friend telling me about it, but I was too young and stupid to appreciate the significance at the time.
Kind of ironic that an aircraft carrier was named after Langley.
"Despite the excellent engine, the Aerodrome A, as it was called, met with disastrous results, crashing on takeoff on October 7, 1903, and again on December 8. Langley blamed the launch mechanism. While this was in some small measure true, there is no denying that the Aerodrome A was an overly complex, structurally weak, aerodynamically unsound aircraft. This second crash ended Langley's aeronautical work entirely."
Launched from a catapult on a boat I might add.
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/langley-aerodrome/nasm_A19180001000