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Banked record, this history lk-tst-honors; homebuilt-aviation record as searched November 2026
No fragment had tested a contested-first claim strand by strand; the sweep finds the town's record holds exactly two first-claim threads, and they are separated here so neither borrows the other's strength. The first thread is John Roncz's canard airfoil work: his analysis showed that the canard airfoil on Burt Rutan's VariEze stalled and lost lift in rain, and the replacement airfoil he computed for the type was adopted by Long-EZ builders — a priority thread carried in the homebuilt record as his documented contribution, with no rival claimant appearing in any carrier. The second thread is the negative one, already banked and restated so the strands stay separate: the Newton limb — no patent naming Robert or Joyce Newton, or Hoosier Racing Tire, surfaced in the inventor indexes, so the tire firm's breakthrough, whatever its size, stands unpatented, and no first-invention claim for it can be printed at patent strength. The record is genuinely that size: one documented contribution thread, one documented negative.