NOPE, you are missing that the red banner with "Birthplace of Aviation" is attached to the fore-planes/ canards so the top depiction is an error! A Wrong-Way Corrigan type of head-slap!
Posted on 10/24/2021 7:48:06 AM PDT by DFG
NOPE, you are missing that the red banner with "Birthplace of Aviation" is attached to the fore-planes/ canards so the top depiction is an error! A Wrong-Way Corrigan type of head-slap!
We’ve got some great Senators. Johnson, Kennedy (see him on Fox news a lot).
Before I get criticized for watching Fox, please know that in Canada, we don’t have OANN or Newsmax.
I am working on it though. Making cranky phone calls...
I was so happy that I saw it live!
And Garland deserved it.
Thank God he’s not on the Supreme Court.
Indeed. I think being a Democrat is a sign of massive stupidity.
Hey he was great!
It’s shown “pushing” a red banner . Hence the orientation problem
If it didn’t have the red banner it seem it should be pulling/towing behind it then what at you stated would be true
So the problem is the red banner that gives it a sense of direction of its flight...with out that there is no difference or direction
Of course they could say the red banner is actually just like a cartoon “talk” bubble and it’s Orville saying “Ohio”
Illustration of the 14-bis flight on 12 November 1906, which earned Santos Dumont the French Aeroclub Award
You really want to argue this about the "1st powered flight"?
After Kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers continued in Ohio with the Wright Flyer II and kept contemporaneous logbook records (lab book type format, valid for patent records) as shown below. This record is of 20 September 1904 circle flight of 4,080 feet (1,244 m) in ~90 seconds.
By 1905, the Wrights were flying 20+ miles for 30+ minutes in the upgraded Wright Flyer III with photo validation.
Yes, there were more witnesses for Santos Dumont's 1906 flight in Paris but chalk a lot up to the difference between a wealthy enthusiast, Santos Dumont, and mid-America brothers, the Wrights, seeking a patentable invention that they had worked on for years. Even the Smithsonian Institute thought their invention impossible based upon lack of education credentials and minimal coverage!
So, I am calling the "1st powered flight" credit to Santos Dumont, a canard (definition 1)! And yes, I know that the Brazilians maintain differently as witness the Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony of 2014! For that matter, I am the proud owner of a Catrike DUMONT recumbent that is built by a Brazilian expat in Orlando FL. Santos Dumont was a great aviation pioneer in both lighter-than-air & heavier-than-air BUT he was not the first in powered heavier-than-air flight!
I guess it depends on which end you’re looking at it from.......maybe it’s an outbound flight.
The do seem to be closely related. Not sure which comes first. :-)
Also, the banner the plane is towing should read “Trump Won”.
flipped the orientation
and that’s all that really matters now, isn’t it?
You have to suspend disbelief anyway to think the the Wright Flyer could tow ANY banner in the first place. The banner tow puts it in the realm of cartoonville, so if it is going to be that preposterous, it really doesn’t make much difference which way the plane is flying.
And the sun is setting casting darkness upon the once great state of Ohio,,,
Shouldn't it be North Carolina?
The direction of the plane’s travel is implied by the banner, which should be trailing, not preceding the plane. Since the banner trails from the plane to the right, the plane must be traveling from right to left.
Its supposed to be dragging the red banner so the first version is wrong
Since the whole picture is fantasy, why can’t the plane be pushing the banner?
Victims of the Ohio public school system.
If there was a following wind that powerful the Wright Flyer would literally have fallen out of the sky.
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