Topic: Billy Mitchell

Stanton Friedman and Greg Carlwood discuss the tendency of prominent scientists to declare new technologies impossible right before they are realized. Friedman cites examples such as astronomers claiming humans would never fly two months before the Wright brothers' flight, and the dismissal of space travel a year before Sputnik. He also references General Billy Mitchell, who was court-martialed for correctly predicting that airplanes would revolutionize naval warfare.