On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:05:03 -0500, Andrew Gideon
wrote:

Peter R. wrote:

I'm sorry, but I have to admit that I had a laugh when reading this
month's
NTSB Reporter. In the "Accident Brief" section that flows to the last
page
there was a paragraph about a crash of a Wright Flier. Fortunately the
pilot was not hurt.



Those NTSB fellows are pretty far behind in their workload if they've just
gotten around to a crash of the Flier.

- Andrew

There was another one, said to be "Simply what the Wright Bros.
experienced." Happened Tue 25 Nov. Minor damage, about a day's work
of repair. Minor news item, or is it?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/11/....ap/index.html


By the way, when is the group going to resolve the unusual fore-aft
design of the flyer? And I don't mean just saying, "Yeah, the
elevator should've been put in the back." But how did it manage to
remain there throughout the life of that one aircraft? (4 short
flights) Did it continue to other aircraft? How many did the
Wright's build? If this has been discussed before (and recently,
given its historical significance) then I apologize for missing it.
If it has not then... well, I don't know what to think.

Mike