On 28/04/2015 13:11, Mitchell Holman wrote:
PVK wrote in news:bYadnX_NGdP2-
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Mitch, thanks for these sets. I know of Old Rhinebeck, but these
pictures really give a sense of the place and its atmosphere. I suppose
the British equivalent is Old Warden, and no doubt there is a lot of
communication between the two. Lovely stuff.
It is odd that flying started in the US but for the
first two decades the Europeans made all the advances
in it. The US did not field a single combat plane in
WWI and had to rely on French loaners. Most of the
replicas at Rhinebeck are copies of European machines.
"It is odd that flying started in the US..."
Indeed it is, however, as here is an an article upon someone else with a
claim, and who was also known as "the Father Of Manned Flight", or the
"Father of Aeronautics", and to whom the Wright brothers owed a lot due
to his experiments some fifty years previously:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3042182.stm
Incidentally, he also invented caterpillar tracks, self-righting
lifeboats, tension-spoke wheels - as used on bicycles, automatic signals
for railway crossings, seat belts, small scale helicopters, and a kind
of prototypical internal combustion engine fuelled by gunpowder.
http://www.wright-brothers.org/Histo..._Airplanes.htm
RiŠardo
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