What if Powered flight had gone differently?

The Wright brothers keep a heavier-than-air machine up, under control, for 12 seconds.

If it had gone differently: Heavier-than-air flight stays a fairground stunt for another generation; the world shrinks more slowly.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on Powered flight. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1957The first satellites. Without it, Space stays out of reach; there is no satellite weather, no global live television, no GPS.
2. 1969The Moon landing. Without it, No one leaves Earth; the high-water mark of 20th-century ambition, and a generation's sense of the possible, never happens.