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Old 20th Jun 2016, 06:50
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joy ride
 
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New to me, but very much my line of interest. A casual glance shows one area of omission: Ornithopters; this is not a criticism, just an observation! Long regarded as an impossibility and therefore not "aircraft", with modern materials and engineering they have at last flown so I feel their ancestors do have historical merit. Certainly London's Science Museum has a few bits of Frost's Ornithopter on display; slight bias on my part because we are related!

In my experience a lot of people seem to think that there were no working aircraft before the Wright Brothers, and I think the full history of flight is particularly interesting when you study the pioneering work before their time.

I feel a purchase is imminent!
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