Author Topic: 100 Short Years A Century of Flight (Read 540 times)

Pfunk · « **Reply #1 on:** December 16, 2003, 10:15:37 PM »

Wow the pics were rather large....edited

Bodhi · « **Reply #2 on:** December 16, 2003, 10:18:18 PM »

Whose the chick?

Pfunk · « **Reply #3 on:** December 16, 2003, 10:26:34 PM »

girlfriend

jigsaw · « **Reply #4 on:** December 16, 2003, 10:28:34 PM »

Very cool pics. Thanks for sharing.

SOB · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2003, 12:19:19 AM »

If only there was a way to make those pics bigger...

Pfunk · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2003, 01:48:21 AM »

sacrilege.......how un American......or wait your from Norway

taken from

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%e9ment_Ader

Aviation historians now discredit any claims of priority, since the flights all ended in crashes

On October 14, 1897, at Satory, the Avion rolled, took off towards the sky and, before the offical commission, flew a distance of more than 300 yards, the first verified mechanical flight, and made its inventor "the father of aviation", but the meteorological conditions were bad, and Ader evidently did not have much notion of piloting; the Avion could not completely travel the circular course which the commission required, the flying machine left the runway and was damaged. At this point the French government withdrew its funding, but kept the results secret, only reporting them as successful flights after the Wright brothers made their flight.

AKIron · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2003, 01:56:14 AM »

Nice pics Pfunk. Pay no attention to the Norweigian, he's just sore cause his days of pillage and rape are long past.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2003, 07:47:12 AM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
Nice pics Pfunk. Pay no attention to the Norweigian, he's just sore cause his days of pillage and rape are long past.

Eagler · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2003, 08:05:50 AM »

flight in NC to mark event on tv around 9:30am EST in a replica of the Wright Brothers plane at the same time exactly 100 years later.

B17Skull12 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2003, 05:30:46 PM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
flight in NC to mark event on tv around 9:30am EST in a replica of the Wright Brothers plane at the same time exactly 100 years later.

was 10:35 am est ands was canceled due to rain i believe. Been following yahoo news in 3 period after i was finished typing my stuff.

Vulcan · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2003, 06:00:04 PM »

Richard Pearse (New Zealand) also predates the Wright flight by about 8 months.

http://www.canterburyfare.co.nz/invention/invention-first-flight.htm

But NOBODY can disagree that the Wright Brothers are the Fathers of Aviation with what they did and achieved.

Pfunk · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2003, 06:00:51 PM »

They tried later in the day.......no wind to be found and she didnt get off the ground. A wire was broken in the process, They were to try again at 2 PM EST but I think the damage was to extensive and with the lack of wind decided to scrap the flight.

Scootter · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2003, 06:54:46 PM »

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Well Pfunk, you got a problem with your eyes there? Makes you look retarded.

American Scientist seems to disagree with you.

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/28339

I think flight without control and ending in a crash if fine for a kid jumping off a roof, but flight by most definitions, it is not .

I mean come on, throwing a rock is not making the rock fly, is it?

midnight Target · « **Reply #14 on:** December 17, 2003, 10:07:11 PM »

Thats not flying.. its falling with style.