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To: SunkenCiv

I had fun flying the Wright brothers flyer when Microsoft came out whit their flight simulator. It was fairly accurate in flight characteristics and pretty hard to get it off the ground I remember. But the graphics were good and it did give you a sense of what it would have been like to make that first flight. :)


12 posted on 12/17/2023 1:51:46 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

On April 17, 1944, Howard Hughes and TWA (Trans World Airlines) president Jack Frye flew a prototype Lockheed Constellation airliner from Burbank, California, to Washington, D.C., in 6 hours and 58 minutes, breaking the transcontinental speed record, and averaging 331mph.

On April 26, during the return trip, the aircraft stopped at Wright Field in Dayton to pick up a very special passenger: Orville Wright.
https://www.daytonlocal.com/blog/history/orville-wrights-final-flight.asp


44 posted on 12/17/2023 5:42:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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