"Netko" wrote in message
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On Fri, 18 May 2012 09:21:09 +0100, Andrew B wrote
(in article ) :


My thanks to both you and Savageduck for confirming and extending what I
suspected.

Also, for purposes of clarification and correction, the aircraft was designed
by a Mr Wright, built by a Mr White but named Wight after the island where it
was built.

I assume this was because the names Wright and White were already established
in the world of early aviation.


Thanks for the interesting correction Netko.

I read and re-read the name in the book several times and it's clearly there in black and white and
yet my mind still tricked me into seeing what it wrongly expected to see.

--
Andrew B (Cheshire, England)

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
(Lord Kelvin, president Royal Society, 1895.)