Years later in 1914, the Aerodrome finally achieved flight, and was flown several hundred feet by Glenn Curtiss, as part of his attempt to fight the Wright Brothers' regarding their aeroplane patents. However, the aeroplane was heavily modified and the courts upheld the Wright's patents. This only emboldened the Smithsonian to display the Aerodrome in its museum as "the first man-carrying aeroplane in the history of the world capable of sustained free flight". The Smithsonian's action triggered a decades-long feud with the surviving brother, Orville Wright.