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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: Flag_This

I remember the newspaper article describing the first flight of the “langley aerodrome”. It said the craft “slid into the potomac like a handful of wet cement”.

LOL

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25 posted on 12/17/2014 1:01:16 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
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