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I read a lot and just started reading David McCullough's book on the Wright Brothers. It is a very good book as are all of McCullough's books. | ||
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It is an excellent book!!!! Any aviation/history fan will enjoy the hell out of it. | |||
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I've heard it was a good book from one of my old bosses. He was the one who gave the presentation to the Royal Aeronautical Society on the one hundredth year of the Wright brothers first flight. Needless to say he knows his stuff on all things dealing with the Wright brothers history. Roger ___________________________ I'm a trophy hunter - until something better comes along. *we band of 45-70ers* | |||
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There was a guy named Richard Pearse who flew at the same time as the Wright brothers, but here in New Zealand.There is conjecture about the timing of his flight and whether it was "controlled" or not , but the Wright brothers get the kudos because their flight was witnessed and recorded - Pearse was a loner and didnt record so well. He did go on to invent the aeleron , and built a helicopter as well http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html ________________________ Old enough to know better | |||
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An interesting read. Yes, the Wright's first powered flight was 12-17-1903. Some have said the Wrights had a lot of funds, not true. All of their funds were out of their bicycle shop. They were offered funds from the Smithsonian and others. They took no funds. After getting their airplane to fly over an hour and doing several maneuvers they were rteady to market it. The US military at the time was uninterested. They went to France in about 1908-1909 time frame. They were offered a large sum at the time by the French, but too many strings were attached. They came back to the USA. This is as far as I am at this time in the book. With only a 10th grade education they mastered flight and built their own engine from scratch when nothing was available at the time. | |||
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One interesting part of the story was how unstable the Wright flyer really was. When the one hundredth anniversary came around a replica was made. They had a lot of difficulty getting it to fly in any sort of controlled manner. Problem is the tail is too close to the wings. But the later models solved that and the rest is history. Roger ___________________________ I'm a trophy hunter - until something better comes along. *we band of 45-70ers* | |||
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They did accumulate $35,000 in prize money while in France. They were flying several times a day before they left for the USA. Wilbur was staying in the air for close to 2hrs and did several maneuvers. He also took a lot of people for rides. | |||
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A part of Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is where the Wright brothers did their flying. Of course it wasn't an AFB then. There is a big heavy cement catapult that a man with a mule team would upset and it would launch them down a wooden runway to get airborne. Before the catapult they would have to rearrange their track depending on wind direction. They would ride on a horse drawn trolley car from their bicycle shop with airplane parts--it was several miles from their shop. | |||
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Another great pioneer of flight. 
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