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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 18:34
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

FYI

Can I block posts, emails and messages from specific users?

If there is a particular member that bothers you and you do not want to see their posts, then you can add this members to your 'Ignore...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 02:02
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

Expert Witness

In early September, 1906, Curtiss visited the Wright office and workshop. He was brought there by his friend, Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, a well-known aeronaut, who was giving exhibition flights in...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 01:48
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

Expert Witness

eetrojan,

Chanute continues his letter with details of three flight conducted the previous day. Do you interpret his comments as being present for those flights also?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2014, 00:34
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

Expert Witness

Chanute on the Wright Brothers' Achievement in
Aerial Navigation.
To the Editor of the Scientific American:
Upon my return last evening from a ten days' trip
to New Orleans I received your letter...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jun 2014, 21:56
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

those boys were truly genuis!

those boys were truly genuis!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jun 2014, 18:55
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

progress

prior to the Wright Bros. first public flights the progress of others were measured in meters and seconds. i.e. on July 4, 1908 Glenn Curtiss flies 1,550 m (5,090 ft) in 1 minute and 42 seconds
and ...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jun 2014, 16:14
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

You must admit that it is extremely coincidental...

You must admit that it is extremely coincidental that real/meaningful advances by others didn't happen until AFTER the public flights of the Wright Bros. in 1908
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jun 2014, 21:58
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

First Flight criteria

Shouldn't the airplane being considered for first flight also be aerodynamically capable of first flight?

In the Ader example I would interpret the "gust of wind" to be strong enough to physically...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Jun 2014, 01:31
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

since you give such strong credit to this...

since you give such strong credit to this statement in the letter written by Henry Weaver and accept it as fact then you must also believe and accept the second sentence of the same letter

which...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Jun 2014, 23:51
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

So what? Maybe they bought one and modified it....

So what? Maybe they bought one and modified it. It is a well known fact the Wrights wrote several engine manufacturers trying to buy engines.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Jun 2014, 23:16
Replies: 680
Views: 124,896
Posted By 99Cruiser99

Whitehead

I have two questions relating to Gustave Whitehead being the first to fly.

#1. What happened to Number 22?

#2. If it were true that he flew in 1901, did Whitehead submit a bid to the December...
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