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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Apr 2015, 06:16
Replies: 1
Views: 1,359
Posted By simplex1

The best pilots are invited to test the 1903 Flyer

The best pilots are invited to test the 1903 Flyer and fly it at least 852 feet

Search for this site "web version - First Flight" ( First Flight (http://firstflight.open.ac.uk/takeoff04.html) ),...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Mar 2015, 09:15
Replies: 23
Views: 9,734
Posted By simplex1

Flybiker7000: You are talking about the...

Flybiker7000:
You are talking about the picture showing Ellehammer flying, the image that appeared in L'Aerophile from March 1907? The photo must have been likely taken on September 12, 1906.
...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
14th Mar 2015, 05:02
Replies: 23
Views: 9,734
Posted By simplex1

The images are form 1907, 1908, 1909. They do not...

The images are form 1907, 1908, 1909. They do not show the plane in 1906.

There are pictures, with one of Ellehammer's machines, which have been published by the Scientific American in March 1906....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Mar 2015, 19:35
Replies: 23
Views: 9,734
Posted By simplex1

Flybiker7000: "The picture was undoubtly used for...

Flybiker7000: "The picture was undoubtly used for documentation as the experiments was done at a remote inhabitated island about a days travel south of Copenhagen and as such it might have been...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Mar 2015, 09:40
Replies: 23
Views: 9,734
Posted By simplex1

Jacob Ellehammer and his 1906 flying machine

Jacob Ellehammer and his 1906 flying machine

I have found an article in L'Aerophile (March 1907) about Jacob Ellehammer and his plane able to float close to the ground.
My question, especially...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Mar 2015, 23:30
Replies: 25
Views: 6,155
Posted By simplex1

One thing is 100% sure, the Wright Brothers...

One thing is 100% sure, the Wright Brothers contributed nothing to the progress of powered flight because no picture or technical drawing of their alleged planes became known before 1908, a year when...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Feb 2015, 22:50
Replies: 25
Views: 6,155
Posted By simplex1

The man who changed the history of aviation with over 130,000 edits on Wikipedia!

The man who changed the history of aviation with over 130,000 edits on Wikipedia!

Most likely you are not aware but the History of Aviation has been written starting with 2007 by roughly a single...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jun 2014, 07:25
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

If one studies a bit the wiki site of the Wright...

If one studies a bit the wiki site of the Wright brothers he quickly notices that it is simpy infected with the name of Crouch that is quoted more than 30 times.
see: Wright brothers - Wikipedia,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jun 2014, 04:46
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

The 1988 topographical map of the area where the...

The 1988 topographical map of the area where the Wright brothers allegedly flew in Dec. 1903 is irrelevant because sand dunes move in time.

Even in 1928, when the location was found based on all...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jun 2014, 01:55
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Harry P. Moore, a journalist, talked by phone...

Harry P. Moore, a journalist, talked by phone with one of the Life Savers and he was told that the Wright brothers' machine, piloted by Orville, "after it glided down a hill on a wooden track, it...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jun 2014, 00:26
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

The picture ([First flight, 120 feet in 12...

The picture ([First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina] (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/00652085/)) does not appear show too much shoreline and what seems to be...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Jun 2014, 23:31
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Book "Aérostation, aviation", (Paris), 1914. A...

Book "Aérostation, aviation", (Paris), 1914. A lot of tractor monoplanes and not so many canards.

see: Max de Nansouty, "Aérostation, aviation", Boivin (Paris), 1914,

- 1. Aérostation,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Jun 2014, 19:50
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Canard configuration is bad and should be avoided...

Canard configuration is bad and should be avoided
It is not just a simple coincidence that the majority of planes do not have canard wings. Some early inventors and plane builders adopted in ...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Jun 2014, 16:50
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Tom Crouch replies to the majority of people. Try...

Tom Crouch replies to the majority of people. Try to send him an email and you will get an answer from him.

Honestly I would have preferred him to study that picture ([First flight, 120 feet in 12...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Jun 2014, 15:53
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Email sent to Tom Crouch (senior curator,...

Email sent to Tom Crouch (senior curator, Aeronautics Department, National Air and Space Museum. A Smithsonian employee since 1974 and author of books and articles about the Wright brothers, see: Dr....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Jun 2014, 04:11
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Those unique features belonged to the...

Those unique features belonged to the Manley-Balzer engine.
The text is a bit misleading but if you read it twice you will notice that it prizes, in fact, Manley's motor.

"Manly's task was to...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 19:01
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Dec. 15, 1906 - The Scientific American showed a...

Dec. 15, 1906 - The Scientific American showed a picture with a new motor of the Wright brothers presented as being able to power a plane capable to carry a man at 50 miles/hour for 500 mile, 10...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 17:19
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Dec. 1906 - The Scientific American seemed to...

Dec. 1906 - The Scientific American seemed to have no doubt that Gustav Whitehead had made short powered flights in 1901 and that the Wright brothers had flown a plane equipped with a motor in 1903...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 07:24
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Santos Dumond was inspired by the 1902 Wright...

Santos Dumond was inspired by the 1902 Wright glider but also the Wright brothers studied the machine of the Brazilian and in 1908, when they really flew, they pushed the canard wing much further in...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 07:00
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

It is quite clear Octave Chanute was ironic and...

It is quite clear Octave Chanute was ironic and did not believe the Wright brothers had flown a powered plane

"In addition to the great feat of inventing a practical flying machine the Wright...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 05:40
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Source: "The Wright Brothers: A Biography", by...

Source: "The Wright Brothers: A Biography", by Fred Charters Kelly, pag. 288

This story, about the photos showing some flights allegedly presented by the Wright brothers to Curtiss in 1906, was...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 03:20
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

There is no doubt Octave Chanute teamed up with...

There is no doubt Octave Chanute teamed up with the Wright brothers and this fully explains why he said he had seen an alleged 1904 flight (see: The letter of Octave Chanute to the Scientific...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Jun 2014, 23:59
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Actually there is an interesting photo (see the...

Actually there is an interesting photo (see the image) held by the Wright State University which proves the Wright brothers were able or knew persons capable to fake pictures.

...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Jun 2014, 22:59
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

There are less than 50 pictures allegedly made...

There are less than 50 pictures allegedly made between Dec. 14 1903 and Aug. 7, 1908 and connected one way or another to Wright's powered machines. All of them are in the Library of Congress. Those...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Jun 2014, 20:11
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

I added the source of the 1904 pictures I talked...

I added the source of the 1904 pictures I talked about in my previous post.

Regarding the gliding flights of the Wright brothers that somebody mentioned, there are three gliders, model 1900,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Jun 2014, 11:46
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

There are only about 12 pictures showing the...

There are only about 12 pictures showing the alleged Flyer II 1904

- May 1904: 1, not in flight
- June or July 1904: 3
- Aug. 5, 1904: 1
- Aug. 13, 1904: 2
- Aug. 16, 1904: 1, not in flight
-...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jun 2014, 22:39
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Regarding the proposal addressed to General James...

Regarding the proposal addressed to General James Allen and made by the Wright brothers on January 27, 1908 ( see: http://www.teamandras.com/temp/Wright_1908_Proposal.jpg ), where are that included...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jun 2014, 21:25
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Another myth: The Wright brothers could not have...

Another myth: The Wright brothers could not have risked in 1908 or after to fly hundreds of times just to take hundreds of pictures and pretend they were made in 1905

There are about 21 pictures,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jun 2014, 18:41
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

The alleged Flyer III 1905 and and the May 1908...

The alleged Flyer III 1905 and and the May 1908 plane were identical so the 1905 pictures showing Flyer III in flight could have been made after May 1908.

The site Home Page for the Wright...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jun 2014, 20:49
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

July 16, 1891 - Clement Ader had not shown yet...

July 16, 1891 - Clement Ader had not shown yet his plane to reliable witnesses

"SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE NAVIGATION AÉRIENNE
Séance du 16 juillet 1891.
Présidence de M. le lieutenant-colonel P....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jun 2014, 17:23
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

The information published by L'Aeronaute in...

The information published by L'Aeronaute in Aug.-Sep. 1891 highly discredits the flight(s) of Clement Ader who failed to present any evidence to a reliable person, Hureau de Villeneuve
...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jun 2014, 09:32
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

The information that L'Aeronaute had in September...

The information that L'Aeronaute had in September 1891 was that a plane, powered by electricity and built by Clement Ader, had flown 300 - 400 m at a height of 20 m, in a perfectly controlled way.
...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jun 2014, 08:38
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

"M. Ader a construit un appareil dont les...

"M. Ader a construit un appareil dont les résultats sont inconnus"
Source: L'Aeronaute, pag. 175, August 1891, L'Aéronaute (Paris) (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57000688/f5)

"Mr. Ader...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jun 2014, 07:28
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

Claimed flights at Huffman prairie, August 1904,...

Claimed flights at Huffman prairie, August 1904, no catapult was used:

"- 13th 1,304’ flight from 195’ track by Wilbur, first flight of 1904 by Wrights to exceed 852 ft. flight made 17 December...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Jun 2014, 14:01
Replies: 680
Views: 124,067
Posted By simplex1

"En cas d'insuffisance de l'engin sur un point...

"En cas d'insuffisance de l'engin sur un point quelconque de ce programme rigoureux, la caution espèces — 10 % — ne sera pas remboursée."
This time the meaning of the clause is clear: "The 10%...
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