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Flight of the Wright brothers
On this day in 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful sustained flights in an airplane—Orville first, gliding 120 feet (36.6 metres) through the air in 12 seconds.
It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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Have visited the wright memorial several times . Awesome what they accomplished . The early pilots , when you look at the planes , had big ones that clanked when they walked .
We used to go down to the Outer Banks on vacation. My favorite side trip was to the Wright Bros. Memorial Park. Going up to the top of the sand dunes there, it was amazing how windy it was. They had some guys there that would let you strap on big kites and let you sail off until you crashed. Well at least that's what happened to every one I saw.😂
We live north of Dayton OH. One time we were on I-75 coming back from Cincinnati and saw the recreation plane that was built to the original specs. It was flying in the area of Morraine and flew right over us. If I remember right it crashed a couple of years later. I don't know if they rebuilt it or not.
I have that same picture hanging in my home office.
Love the outer banks. A few photos from my last visit.
"Coffee, tea, or me" was from the era when we called those gals stewardess's.
Now if we called them that we'd be looking for another plane to ride in!
Two wrongs don't make a right, but
Two Wrights make history.
I am a lifelong resident of eastern NC . Sad to say up until about 6 or 7 years ago I had never been to Kitty Hawk . Now it and Ocracoke are some of my favorites places on the coast
Being from Ohio the Dayton Air Force museum is a place I need to visit again. The China Virus thing has canceled many plans to visit it again. The Wright Bros. had wing warping as a method of control. They spent years in court fighting others over the patent. It distracted them from a lot of further developments and time passed them by until the aileron proved more effective.
I wonder when wing warping will again rule the skies with new technology and materials; flying more like birds....
Correct me, but isn’t Wright bros. first flight disputed in some parts?
We used to go down to the museum about every other year when our daughter was living with us. We haven't been back since she moved out. We need to go back.
I thjougt this was going to be a porngih, theread. Or maybe there was rum. Anyway those guys are nuts or pretty desperate for willing women.
Orville's wife spent years looking for Mr. Wright!
She ended up settling for Mr. Redenbacher
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Neither Wilbur nor Orville were ever married. They were survived by a neice. She died a few years ago.
Joe
I have the honor of witnessing a flight that made the Guinness Book and took place at the Wright-Pat AF Museum. One of the members of the FAC Association became the only man to ever fly the SR-71 and the Wright Flyer. He was allowed to fly the replica machine they have there for the record. (He said the Wright machine was MUCH trickier!)