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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: crockett on December 05, 2007, 06:18:30 PM
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They would have probably been arrested and fined for flying with out a pilots license in a un-certified aircraft. Would probably also be jailed for no insurance aswell.
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No, they'd be a couple of toothless old men shating themselves in a nursing home.
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The Wrights didn't have issues with pilot's licenses. They trained pilots and issued them. ;)
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Two Wrights can't make a wrong.
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If cavemen were alive today they'd probably get lots of tickets for jaywalking.
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They would be suing everyone under the sun for patent infringement.
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They'd be wondering why in God's name aircraft are getting slower.
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Originally posted by 68Wooley
They'd be wondering why in God's name aircraft are getting slower.
I doubt that. They may be wondering why ground delay has become such a problem, though. ;)
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And yet not one mention of the wrong brothers (http://www.ezone.com/games/wrong/gamecode.htm) in this thread.
Shame on y'all!
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Originally posted by Arlo
I doubt that. They may be wondering why ground delay has become such a problem, though. ;)
I hear want you're saying, but here's state of the art in passenger aircraft, circa 1977:
(http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/6455/concordelandinglr7.th.jpg) (http://img462.imageshack.us/my.php?image=concordelandinglr7.jpg)
And here's the state of the art 30 years later:
(http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3023/1ervoldela380ek3.th.jpg) (http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3023/1ervoldela380ek3.jpg)
Progress? Not in my book.
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Originally posted by rpm
They would be suing everyone under the sun for patent infringement.
That was the first thing I thought of as well.
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Originally posted by 68Wooley
I hear want you're saying, but here's state of the art in passenger aircraft, circa 1977:
(http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/6455/concordelandinglr7.th.jpg) (http://img462.imageshack.us/my.php?image=concordelandinglr7.jpg)
And here's the state of the art 30 years later:
(http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3023/1ervoldela380ek3.th.jpg) (http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3023/1ervoldela380ek3.jpg)
Progress? Not in my book.
It's not technology. It's cost. I bet the Wright brothers could figure it out. :)
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Originally posted by rpm
They would be suing everyone under the sun for patent infringement.
If patent law was anything then like it is today, their 1903 patent would have expired more than 2 decades before Orville's death. Orville would have outlived his second patent too, granted in 1924.
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Nominated for dumbest thread of the month.
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Originally posted by rpm
They would be suing everyone under the sun for patent infringement.
Na because Microsoft or Acacia would have bought the patent from them, and then sued everyone. The Bros would have just retired rich. :D
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The Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce began pilot certification with this license, issued on April 6, 1927. The recipient was the chief of the Branch, William P. MacCracken, Jr. (Orville Wright, who was no longer an active flier, had declined the honor.) MacCracken's license was the first issued to a pilot by a civilian agency of the Federal government.
(http://oldbeacon.com/beacon/images/first_pilots_license_in_us.jpg)
When I was a kid, I once got a ride with PH Spenser in his Air Car, (a homebuilt Republic Sea Bee) at San Fernando Airport, near Van Nuys. PH Spencer designed the Sea Bee.
(http://www.pilotfriend.com/experimental/images12/53.jpg)
He showed us his first pilot's licence, endorsed by Orville.
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Very cool:aok
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If the Wrights were still around today, I'd like to think I'd work for a government on a space program, or would be heavily involved with the X-Project.