"I remember the wood and gossamer contraption slowly rising into the air and thinking 'A man is floating above God's earth'. What a miracle."
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We visited the Wright Brothers National Memorial this past May. Very much worth our time.
https://www.nps.gov/wrbr/index.htm
There is no “allegedly” about it.
Wow. 120 years.
Time sure flies!!!
More of that damn white supremacy!
The Wright Brothers were black.
OBX has some wicked winds
December 18th flight was delayed due to crew staffing issues and a trend was born...
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Notice “on this day,” not on this date.
"I remember the wood and gossamer contraption slowly rising into the air and thinking 'A man is floating above God's earth'. What a miracle."
Left rudder!
In less than a 100 years America went from the first flight to putting a man on the moon and now we can’t do anything right
My paternal grandparents grew up in Dayton, and as a teenager around the turn of the century her older brother used to hang out in the Wright brothers’ bicycle shop. He had some interesting stories.
Today is my birthday too. However, I would prefer you give a plug to Jesus, our Lord and Savior, versus me, as he certainly sacrificed more than the Wright brothers and myself.
Wright brothers make first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and it was overcrowded and some woman went crazy.
The life saving station where they sent their telegram is now a restaurant called The Black Pelican. It has many commemorative photos of the feat. Plus, good food.
This idiot doesn’t understand what “wing warping” was. He appears to think it was part of the propulsion system but it was for flight control (no one had invented ailerons yet).
The Wrights were mathematical enough to be able to calculate how much thrust it would take to make their airplane leave the ground, but how to measure the engine’s thrust? They used a spring scale on a rope tied to a post driven into the ground. Put the plane on the launch rails, ran it up to full throttle and read how many pounds of thrust it was generating. Genius.
And they had (a little) power to spare.
For years there was widespread incredulity that they could actually fly, which the Wrights dispelled gradually, until finally they held a public display at Fort Meyer in September of 1908 that was attended by the press and numerous government officials, including Teddy Whoosevelt & heads of the Department of the Army. Then in 1910, they took TR himself for a ride, the first POTUS to fly in an airplane.
article was written by morons:
1. their’s was the first HEAVIER than air flight, not first flight ...
2. their machine’s wings were SHAPED like bird wings not “angled” like bird wings ...
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