Just wanted to mark the Anniversary of Wilbur and Orville's little aviation effort there at Kill Devil Hills, a scant 4 miles from the town of Kitty Hawk, NC.
Good Onya Mates!
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Just wanted to mark the Anniversary of Wilbur and Orville's little aviation effort there at Kill Devil Hills, a scant 4 miles from the town of Kitty Hawk, NC.
Good Onya Mates!
Kitty Hawk Kites at Kill Devil Hills that has a replica of the Wright glider that you can attempt to fly off the sand dune(s).
Best of luck,
Wes
A friend of mine did that and wrote a story about it for us: http://inspire.eaa.org/2019/10/02/th...-glider-stuff/Quote:
Originally Posted by WLIU
Thanks you Orville and Wilbur for inventing the airplane...
On the day in 1903 the Wright Brothers are credited with inventing 3 axis
controlled heavier than air powered flight... between 1903 and
1908 they were the *only* humans on this planet up in the air flying
on a daily bases... they were up to the duration of 1.2 hours and
could fly figure 8s... the Wrights wanted to sell airplanes over seas
but when the French read their claims they challenge those braggart
Americans to prove their claims... because in 1908 the best French
flyers were only hopping a couple of hundred feet in a straight
line... any attempt at a turn was met with a crash... well the Wrights
not only proved their claims they taught the French all about 3 axis
controlled flight... Bleriot bought into the Wright Brothers wing
warping patent and crossed the English channel with in 6 months... the
aileron ( French for little wing) was invented to side set the Wrights
wing warping patent... you could not have 3 axis control flight
without some form of lateral control be it warp or aileron... it was
all going to be settle in court maybe in the Wrights favor but with the
advent of WW1 meant all patent rights were pooled for National
Security... the Wrights got nothing for their discovery but the world
learn to fly from their ideas...
The day Wilbur Wright demonstrates, to the skeptical French, 3 axis control flight in 1908...
https://youtu.be/A-CvkEUSAO4
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I happened to be in DC yesterday and, since I could not fly yesterday, I thought the best way to mark the date was a visit to the National Air and Space Museum.
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