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To: ThinkingBuddha
The Wrights were the first to do controlled heavier-than-air flight.
7 posted on 10/15/2012 10:00:05 AM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: NonZeroSum

BinGo!!!

Other “planes” flew, but the pilots pretty much just hung on for the ride. Sometimes it was their last.

For anyone interested in this subject I highly recommend “Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers” by Fred Howard. The first third of the book takes you up to the first flight; the rest of the book is what happened after...the non-believers, secret flights back in Ohio, seeking to sale their invention to Germany and other countries because the U.S Army didn’t believe they were legit. To me, the second two-thirds was more interesting than the first.


26 posted on 10/15/2012 11:23:52 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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