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  1. How to determine the lift and drag of a wing (the Wright brothers did this experimentally with a wind tunnel of their own design and got the right answer, others had done calculations using incorrect equations and got the wrong answer).
  2. How to design the propellers (the Wright brothers designed them as rotating wings and got efficient propellers, others had based theirs on the propellers used on ships in water and got very inefficient propellers for use in air).
  3. How to design flight controls that allowed turning (the Wright brothers designed their airplane to be unstable like a bicycle and used wing warping to allow the pilot to stabilize and turn the airplane, others had completely overlooked this issue and designed their airplanes to be stable for safety but got airplanes that could only fly in a straight line without any ability to turn).
  4. How to design lightweight but powerful engines.
  5. etc.
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