It's May 05, 2024, 08:46:39 PM
In honor of the Wright Brothers, that's right, 100 years ago today, AMERICANS invented the airplane. Stupid Americans. Some dumb luck that was.
DID YOU READ anything about any of this? LOL It says in the article it's bullshit, LOL. Damn, man, grow the fuck up. Look into the subject a little bit before you claim you're an expert.
"The claim is based on disqualifying the flights made by the Wrights because 'The airplane didn't take off under its own power.' The Wrights developed a catapult system in 1904 that was used to launch their airplanes. This system was used for many years. But they didn't use a catapult in 1903 and took off from level ground. Many of their machines, including the 1905 model, could have taken off under their own power. All the Wrights needed to do was to add wheels to their craft and have reasonably-level ground for takeoffs. However, the Wrights didn't care to have their machine damaged in takeoff from soft fields, and so employed an efficient, reliable, and elegant means of launching their craft. To claim this disqualifies their craft as airplanes is taking a minor matter far too seriously. To ignore the performance of the 1903 craft is absurd. By the way, others not only had their airplanes damaged during takeoff using wheels, some people were even killed when the plane hit a rut during takeoff. In comparison, the Wright's catapult system was, like most other features of the Wright airplane, a beautiful and efficient solution to a difficult problem."
lmao @ this thread
http://"There's a strong nationalist issue at play here," says Marcos Villares, Santos-Dumont's great grandnephew. "Flight was a very important step in human history, in the history of technology. Every country wants to claim priority."