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Shortly after the civil war ended, blacksmith Robert Jackson and his brother Raymond toyed with building what would later be called an airplane. They had built numerous small craft that would coast quite well and decided to build something large enough to carry one of them. Though they spent many years trying, they never managed to achieve their goal. On his deathbed, Robert lamented their failure to ever build a workable plane. Raymond replied that they were just the wrong brothers to break such a barrier and that mankind would just have to wait for the right brothers.
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