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Who Invented the Airplane? A Brazilian, of Course

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JTSimon:

--- Quote from: Trauma on December 18, 2003, 03:24:39 PM ---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.  

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Its one expert vs. another in the article the physict and the chairman of the aeronautics division at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

I never claimed I was an expert retard.

Woodrow:
Holy shit you're stupid.

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/private/wright-flyer/info/info.htm


--- Quote ---"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."
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Like it or not, The Wright brother's  discovered how to solve the problem of heavy-than-air flying, before anyone else, and that can't successfully be disputed.

Try again Dummy.

[Stoned]Jesus H. Christ[Wheat]:

--- Quote from: Luke on December 18, 2003, 04:07:01 PM ---lmao @ this thread

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Don Jacob:
LMAO @ max powers the article even said the santos claim wasn't true......


man my grandpa was in the airforce and his muse is air craft.......he would laugh at you heinously and then spit in your face. the write brothers were the first......santos didn't make a qualifying flight until AFTER the brothers did. also the brazilians was MORE of a hang glider than the write brothers' LOL. god you have NO clue what you're talking about here. BUT let's say the brothers wern't the first......their flight and model is more important to aerotechnology and the industry took more from their maiden voyage than  the frenchied brazilian.

JTSimon:
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--- Quote ---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."
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I don't remember getting launched by a catapult on a incline the last time I was on a plane  ;D


Why didn't the Wright Brothers have any expert witnesses to their so-called first flight beside stupid townspeople?

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