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111 Years Ago Today: Man’s First Powered Flight.
Alert 5 ^ | December 17, 2014 | Tom Demerly

Posted on 12/17/2014 11:49:14 AM PST by EveningStar

It is equipped with side stick controls like an F-16 Fighting Falcon. It uses an advanced, “mission adaptive” wing that has no seams at the control surfaces. The wing is so unique its design is protected under U.S. patent 821,393. The entire wing changes shape to control the roll axis of the aircraft ...

And it is the first successful powered aircraft ever, the Wright Flyer.

111 years ago today Orville Wright became the first man to achieve powered flight. His first 12-second flight, covering only 120 feet, changed the course of mankind.

10:35 Local, Thursday, 17 December, 1903; Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina ...


(Excerpt) Read more at alert5.net ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 1903; aerospace; aviation; kittyhawk; orvillewright; wilburwright; wrightbrothers
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1 posted on 12/17/2014 11:49:14 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...
Aviation and Aerospace ping

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2 posted on 12/17/2014 11:51:05 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Americans not unique/special? OBAMA is full of krap!


3 posted on 12/17/2014 11:55:18 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: EveningStar; All
High Flight by John Magee

"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunwards I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a thousand things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air,
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of god."


4 posted on 12/17/2014 11:57:27 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: EveningStar

Awesome story!!!

That was a great area for it too.

lol Now it’s probably covered by beach houses, if they haven’t preserved it.


5 posted on 12/17/2014 12:00:27 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: BigEdLB

In obamas defense, they didnt build that.


6 posted on 12/17/2014 12:00:40 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: EveningStar

Only the local 2-bit newspaper covered this historic event.

The New York newspapers didn`t think it was worth anything to send a reporter down there to check on a couple of fringe element bicycle brothers/.


7 posted on 12/17/2014 12:09:17 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))
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To: skinkinthegrass

High Flight
(with FAA Supplement)

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth(1),
And danced(2) the skies on laughter silvered wings;

Sunward I’ve climbed(3) and joined the tumbling mirth(4)
Of sun-split clouds(5) and done a hundred things(6)

You have not dreamed of — Wheeled and soared and swung(7)
High in the sunlit silence(8). Hov’ring there(9)

I’ve chased the shouting wind(10) along and flung(11)
My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious(12), burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights(13) with easy grace,

Where never lark, or even eagle(14) flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space(15),
Put out my hand(16), and touched the face of God.
NOTE:

1. Pilots must insure that all surly bonds have been slipped entirely before aircraft taxi or flight is attempted.

2. During periods of severe sky dancing, crew and passengers must keep seatbelts fastened. Crew should wear shoulderbelts as provided.

3. Sunward climbs must not exceed the maximum permitted aircraft ceiling.

4. Passenger aircraft are prohibited from joining the tumbling mirth.

5. Pilots flying through sun-split clouds under VFR conditions must comply with all applicable minimum clearances.

6. Do not perform these hundred things in front of Federal Aviation Administration inspectors.

7. Wheeling, soaring, and swinging will not be attempted except in aircraft rated for such activities and within utility class weight limits.

8. Be advised that sunlit silence will occur only when a major engine malfunction has occurred.

9. “Hov’ring there” will constitute a highly reliable signal that a flight emergency is imminent.

10. Forecasts of shouting winds are available from the local FSS. Encounters with unexpected shouting winds should be reported by pilots.

11. Pilots flinging eager craft through footless halls of air are reminded that they alone are responsible for maintaining separation from other eager craft.

12. Should any crewmember or passenger experience delirium while in the burning blue, submit an irregularity report upon flight termination.

13. Windswept heights will be topped by a minimum of 1,000 feet to maintain VFR minimum separations.

14. Aircraft engine ingestion of, or impact with, larks or eagles should be reported to the FAA and the appropriate aircraft maintenance facility.

15. Aircraft operating in the high untresspassed sanctity of space must remain in IFR flight regardless of meteorlogical conditions and visibility.

16. Pilots and passengers are reminded that opening doors or windows in order to touch the face of God may result in loss of cabin pressure.


8 posted on 12/17/2014 12:11:50 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: lowbridge

Or as Hitlery would say “Businesses don’t create jobs”. I guess the magic job fairy must create them.


9 posted on 12/17/2014 12:12:39 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: EveningStar

Soon to be erased from history books because neither were minorities, gay, cross-dressers, women, or Obama voters.


10 posted on 12/17/2014 12:14:51 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: EveningStar

Soon to be erased from history books because neither were minorities, gay, cross-dressers, women, or Obama voters.


11 posted on 12/17/2014 12:14:59 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: EveningStar

If anyone is ever traveling I-70 in Indiana near the OH border, take an hour and visit this little gem:

http://www.wwbirthplace.com/


12 posted on 12/17/2014 12:19:23 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: central_va; All
NOW! ..You've done It! d;^D
The Wright Brothers, had it easy!

(no d@mn Gov't. interference)

13 posted on 12/17/2014 12:20:27 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: KoRn

The site itself is in great shape. Awesome monument to the Wright Bros. and flight at the top of the hill. Spent the whole week there for the 100th anniversary celebration in 2003.Two bad the replica flyer only made it about five feet before tipping over. Wind speed to get airborne was was too low.


14 posted on 12/17/2014 12:22:05 PM PST by Renegade
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To: skinkinthegrass

Who gave Orville his check ride?


15 posted on 12/17/2014 12:27:10 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bunkerhill7
The New York newspapers didn`t think it was worth anything to send a reporter down there to check on a couple of fringe element bicycle brothers/.

The Scientific Consensus was that heavier-than-air flight was impossible.

16 posted on 12/17/2014 12:31:31 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: EveningStar
The Wright Bros. rival, Samuel Pierpont Langley, was the only flight experimenter to get government funding; but his plane went into the Potomac.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

17 posted on 12/17/2014 12:38:54 PM PST by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: KoRn

I thought it was a preserved historical park. I remember seeing videos of the one hundredth anniversary and i remember seeing a large, open area with an obelisk marking the location the wright flyer took off.

CC


18 posted on 12/17/2014 12:40:46 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
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To: Celtic Conservative

It is. Your memory is correct.


19 posted on 12/17/2014 12:42:35 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: EveningStar

I was gifted to work at Wright Patterson air force base for almost twenty years including some time near Huffman Prairie. As I was going to and from I never failed to look over at the field where the first Master pilot was born. Wilbur taught himself through trial and error. He made the first 360 degree turns here and I suspect he flew into his own prop wash as I did later in my first hour of flight training. He practiced this over and over again in this small portion of the Prairie until he had mastered it, it seems flight training was born here also.


20 posted on 12/17/2014 12:42:43 PM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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