Swank Force One wrote:
OK, not that is cool.
Unrelated
wbjones wrote:
Excuse me I need a moment. I didn't think pron was allowed on GRM.
Below is it's younger sibling. Arguably the best racing prototype ever. Designed by some chap named Ross Brawn. The favorite car ever raced by most of it's drivers Warick, Brundle, Brabham have all said so in interviews
SWMBO presented me with this last night:
Hungary Bill wrote:
I want the paint code for that shade of BRG.
Happy Wright Brothers Day!
Another Dayton inventor was Charles Kettering. First employed at NCR (the cash register place), then he started the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company.
Here’s a scary thought, I soloed in 1980 so I’ve been around for 31% of aviation’s history and towards the end of 2018, it’ll be a complete third.
116 Hp of pure adrenaline…joking aside, it managed to keep a little sixteen year old alive and for that, it has my gratitude.
Kind of funny to think the doors on this:
Inspired the doors on this:
wbjones wrote:
Breathalyzer?
iadr wrote: In reply to RX Reven': Ah, you know the Wright Bros weren't even in the first several people to build a "flying machine", right? Alexander Graham Bell (among others) had one some 6 moths earlier, and it wasn't counted because it took off water, not land. Suppose you could call it a High-lift Hydrofoil, but it wasn't by my definition as the wings were above water. As a young man I stood in the museum and saw copies of photos of it. Has always been a peeve of mine. Lots of other lies told in the world, not sure why I let that one bother me.
Wasn't there a guy in the North East somewhere who supposedly beat them by a couple of years as well?
Also I've read in the past that even their first flight wasn't really a flight. When you take into account the assisted launch you could theoretically have glided further than they flew.
While there are arguably other "first flights", the Wright brothers won due to the publicity they got. Of which, they made sure happened- as in that picture we see.
It's great to look at the events in hindsight, but it was reported in real time, and the Wrights reported it, with picture evidence, first. So they win.
There's no lying involved. It's more lack of reporting that was the problem- why would the media care about two bike makers from Dayton over a whole host of the others who were trying, particularly one as famous as Bell.
All it took was a picture.
edit- Adrian- assisted lauch? I thought that came later- Kittyhawk was windy enough without a catapult.
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