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RD-DD1843 [2016-06-01 17:04:03 +0000 UTC]

Ah, Dr. Christmas was a close engineering friend and consultant of Professor Langley...poor Samuel.  Well, nobody died in the two crashes of the Aerodrome.

Senator Wadsworth's family was rather prominent in New York State for over a century - his grandfather was a General in the Mexican War.  In fact there is a Fort Wadsworth.  This connection to the military may have been the reason Wadsworth got the Army to listen to Christmas.  It may also explain why Christmas cultivated Wadsworth.

Do you know whatever happened to Dr. Christmas?

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thormemeson [2015-10-17 16:26:45 +0000 UTC]

Well lets see he put safety devices on stabilizers and then tried selling this thing to the man he wanted to kidnap with it, no he actually work for the man oh god what you could do in the age of no communications.

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S7alker117 [2015-10-17 11:53:58 +0000 UTC]

You were right, this one is outright bizarre. I didn't knew about the existence of this aircraft and I think it's easy to see why. Such a sad series of events is something the US government and the aviation community in general would really like to see forgotten. 

Christmas, if that was really his name, seems to have been a straight-up psychopath (propensity to lie and manipulate, lack of care for other people's lives, etc), and his shenanigans caused the death of two men with this story alone. It's insane, funny in a very dark way and straight up depressing in the end (like most good comedies now that I think about it). 

Finally, profiteers like this are everywhere, and the amount of times they try (and sometimes succeed) in exploiting governments is surprisingly large. 

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