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Title: On this day, December 17....
Source: The Wright Brothers
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Published: Dec 17, 1903
Author: The Wright Brothers
Post Date: 2012-12-17 20:54:08 by X-15
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Comments: 1

...1903:

The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Wright Flyer (often retrospectively referred to as Flyer I or 1903 Flyer) was the first successful powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it four times on December 17, 1903 near the Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S. The U.S. Smithsonian Institution describes the aircraft as "...the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard." The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale described the 1903 flight during the 100th anniversary in 2003 as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight."

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Tip your hat to two Good White Men who changed the world forever. It's because of them that we can fly for business/pleasure and enjoy a wide array of wonderful and unique aircraft.

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

good thing some of us don't listen to experts:

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." - Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere." - Thomas Edison, 1895

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." - Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

more expert opine here: www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-245141.html

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Amandil  posted on  2012-12-17   21:56:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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