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Nobody wanted them to, per se. The brothers -- especially Wilbur -- got interested in the subject themselves. Otto Lilienthal was an early inspiration. At first the brothers believed they might make a small contribution to the larger effort going on at the time to invent a heavier-than-air, piloted machine. But the further they went in their work, the more they realized they had a chance at doing it all themselves, and they eventually did.

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