Posted on 07/19/2024 11:38:51 AM PDT by know.your.why
For centuries, humans have been fascinated by flight. In ancient China, kites few to investigate the weather. Inventors such as Leonardo da Vinci developed many ideas about flight, too. Gliders and balloons lifted humans into the sky, but none of the inventions gave a person control of where they flew.
Before Powered Flight The physics of flight and propulsion play key roles in who became pioneers. George Cayley used aerodynamics while designing fixed-wing aircraft. His designs would later inspire Orville and Wilbur Wright.
Since propulsion is one of the primary requirements to lift a human into the sky for flight, it would make sense that an engine could provide that power. Samuel Langley, an astronomer from Boston, designed a steam-powered model called an aerodrome in 1891. It flew for 3/4ths of a mile.
After receiving a grant to build a full-sized aerodrome, Langley's first test crashed. He never made another attempt.
First Powered Flight In a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, two inventors eagerly began testing their ideas about flight. Brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, had studied Octave Chanute's 1894 Progress in Flying Machines. The brothers set to work testing their designs, first with gliders. Eventually, they sought to add an engine.
Well I’m off by a month. I’m celebrating anyway.
Has biden claimed that he trained the Wright brothers yet?
https://iment.com/maida/family/father/jackbell/Jack-Bell-Prospector-and-Naturalist-39.htm#hooded1
Early Air Mail Stories
by Jack Bell
Following his service in France in World War I, Jack moved to the lumber town of Verdi, Nevada, just outside of Reno. With an eye for the opportunity, Jack spent a good amount of time at the Verdi airport interviewing the former World War I pilots who were now getting their adrenaline rush by flying the 100 miles between Reno and San Francisco over the Sierra Nevadas, a stretch of mountains that gave no emergency landing spots.
The concept of delivering mail by those new-fangled aeroplanes had taken off worldwide in 1911. For the next seven years, air mail flights were on and off. The first official route in the U.S. was inauguarated May 15, 1918, with the official route being between Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
Some two years later, Eddie Rickenbocker designed a 13 city route that would move the mail from New York City to San Francisco. Reno was one of those cities. Two years into the new airmail service, Jack began his series of feature articles on the daring exploits of these young heros, published first in the Nevada State Journal, and then reprinted in the Oakland Tribune.
Aviation Ping...................a month early..................
That’s ok, it’s something other than what’s going on. The EAA should be starting soon. We get all sorts of planes flying in around here, overflow. Once, a stealth bomber flew right over my house, very low. It was so cool.
But it had better be DEI-compliant!
Regards,
Darn...beat me to it. I was going to ask if he will fondly recall witnessing that first flight on December 17, 1903.
Great minds, why should we not think otherwise?
The F4U Corsair - one of my favorite WW2 planes.
Ab yes, powered flight, an endeavor heavily sprinkled with black lesbians. They should make a movie…
Alberto Santos-Dumont demonstrated successful powered flight in 1901 as he flew around the Eiffel Tower. And even earlier Ferdinand von Zeppelin made a flight in October 1900 powered boy internal combustion engines.
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