On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 11:50:40 -0800, eivindfn wrote:

On Thursday, June 1, 2000 at 9:00:00 AM UTC+2, Jan Lustrup wrote:
Did you know that the worlds first flight was not by Otto Lilienthal!

It happened in 1825 at Narvestad,Lund in Norway.
The constructor and pilot was a norwegain named Hans Andreas
Berentsen.
The glider flight covered several hundred meters.
He built it with stealwire and clouth used for sailboats.
His glider was kept in a farmbarn-loft until 1936 when it was sadly
destroyed along with the rest of the farm.
It is said that the butterflies inspired him to build the airplane.

It is unknown what the glid ratio / min.sink was.
There is a large infomation sign at Lund that tells more in detail
about the flight.

This all happened 66 years before Otto Lilienthal's first flight!!!!!

Not bad for the old Viking

Greetings from "The land of the midnight sun",

Jan Lustrup "
Kvernfallveien 12 4340 Bryne Norway

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4op7zrh7ws..._2841.JPG?dl=0

It seems that several people succeeded in flying gliders around the same
time in the mid-1800s.

George Cayley built a man-carrying glider that flew across Brompton Dale
in front of Wydale Hall in 1853. This was in Yorkshire. It had a wheeled
undercarriage but there's very little other information about the flight.
However, the drawings of the glider were preserved and at least two
replicas have flown across Brompton Dale since then, flown by Derek
Piggott (twice, 1973, mid 1980s) and Richard Branson (once, 2003), so its
evidently somewhat controllable in the air or I don't think Derek would
have flown it twice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley



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