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In 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first heavier than air craft with Wilbur at the controls. They were nearly beaten however when, in 1901 Augustus and Philleas Rong worked out that if you tied a sheet around your neck and jumped of the barn you could fly.
Sadly they both tried this feat and failed sustaining injuries in the attempt.
They however categorically proved that in the end, two Rongs don’t make a Wright.
Please forgive me all🤩
Rgds,
Crocy.
yep you're right.... forgive him:doh:
I know it's a joke but it's incorrect.
The Wright brothers made the first POWERED heavier than air flight at kittyhawk.
Others had completed successful flights in gliders.
Even that is slightly incorrect damian. The Wright brothers made the first manned, powered, controlled and sustained heavier than air flight (and even that is contested). A bloke called Langley had flown a steam powered unmanned heavier than air craft before that.Quote:
Originally Posted by damian
Another claim that seems to gain traction as the years pass is that Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic in 1927. This had already been achieved 8 years earlier by Alcock and Brown. Lindbergh was the first to do it solo.
Pete
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This started as a joke😂
Almost 10 years ago to the day, I was unceremoniously escorted out of the Natural History Museum in Washington DC by the security guards. My crime? I was looking at the display of Thomas Edison where it was listed that he had invented everything including the electric motor and the whole world. I was muttering to my then wife that it was a pack of lies as Nicola Tesla invented the electric motor and we had only days before saw it written at his monument in Niagara Falls on the US side. Come with us please sir. Why? Sorry sir you must leave. Why because the truth gets in the road of a good story?
So I was removed, but no further repercussions.
Rgds,
Crocy.
Thomas Alva Edison was not really an inventor but rather 'The Manager of the Smart Folks'. As I have been told it was Edison's management skills that brought these "Inventions" to uses in the main stream. Remember that TAE was an advocate of DC electric distribution to the masses rather than AC.