Posted on 06/02/2024 6:54:59 PM PDT by martin_fierro
“...But it took off horizontally using wing-generated lift to get airborne instead of fan-generated thrust....”
The Wright Brothers also used a derrick with a heavy weight - attached to cables and pulleys to pull the aircraft forward on a track to achieve lift-off.
Gustave Whitehead needed no such ‘help’ when he flew a powered aircraft 28 months before the Wright Brothers...
https://gustavewhitehead.info/about-gustave-whitehead/
I guess I’m just an old fart.
I ain’t giving up my 93FXR for nuttin.
You’d probably get it keyed for taking 6 parking spaces at Walmart.
Heh
They have been prmising this for over 2 decades. Come on and build them already!
So the idiots we see on the roads every day are now going to be over our heads. What could go wrong?
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