See the Wright Flyer Re-Enactment Flight

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17th Dec 2003, 08:47

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See the Wright Flyer Re-Enactment Flight

The flight will be at KittyHawk at 19:35 ET and can be seen with Real Audio streaming video. See the link on this page:

http://www.countdowntokittyhawk.com

18th Dec 2003, 04:22

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I just watched it on the news. Interesting that 100 years on and they couldn't get the plane off the ground. Guess those Wright boys were no dummies !!!

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It stalled at 24 mph and had wildly unstable pitch scillation at about 30 mph, soo it was a handful!

I guess the reinactment was quite realistic, the Wrights crashed it all the time, too.