Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: del magsam
Oscar assumes that everyone buys into the myth that the 1902 flight by the Wrightbrothers was the first. Larry________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:03:33 -0800 (PST)

Original Posted By: "walter evans"
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, catdesigns(at)juno.com wrote:> > catdesigns(at)juno.com> > So Larry who do you think was first to fly?> And, if you ask any European or South American, theywill tell you that it was a Frenchman several yearsbefore the Wrights - of whom most have never heard!CraigLake Worth, FLBakeng Duce NX96CWPeoplePC: It's for people. And it's just smart. http://www.peoplepc.com ________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: Les Schubert

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I just returned from a weekend at Kittyhawk (reserving a beach house fornext year) and found that Wilbur DID crash the airplane on the firstattempt, on December 14th. It took them two days to repair and get readyfor the first successful attempt on the 17th. Winds that day were 29 knots!I can think of better weather to make my first flight, but they had promisedtheir sister they would be home for Christmas, so they tried it, made fourflights with the fourth resulting in substantial damage to the airframe. Itrequired at least 15 knots of wind to enable them to take off on the shortpiece of track that they used for a runway.There are a number of people who could claim first flight status, howeverfew if any performed the detailed research and analysis that made theWright's work so remarkable.Jack -----Original Message-----