Liberals Ignore The Wright Brothers

Another thought came to mind, how will _our_ times be judged hundreds
of years from now?


"Flying an aeroplane with only a single propeller to keep you in the air. Can
you imagine that?"
- Captain Picard

and gliders? oh my god! neandertals!

Some things are worth it.

I forgot to mention: lack of female companionship for months or years
at a time.

And poxy bar-flies at the end of the voyage.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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In article , Cub Driver wrote:
After you've been shanghaied, lashed by the cat o' nine tails, fed on
weevils and biscuits, sent aloft in a gale, sodomized by the bosun,
and had your teeth fall out from scurvy, precious little of that magic
remains.

I always thought it amusing that a supposedly insulting term for the
British is "Limey", when it actually reflects smartness - the vitamin C
that prevented British sailors from suffering from scurvy.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Judah,

I think for most people nowadays, there isn't much Magic.


Careful with statements like that. At the end of the 19th century,
common wisdom was that everything inventable had been invented. Things
have changed quite a bit since then...

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

I don't think that everything inventable has been invented at all. I just
think that there just aren't any really good, original dreams out there
these days. I think many of our modern inventions were inspired by artists
who dreamed up what the future would be like - Van-Gough, Asimov,
Roddenberry, etc. And I haven't seen any truly inspirational, original
ideas from the artists these days. All the sci-fi is the same, and all of
the new ideas are just small modifications of the old ones.

Between the lack of dreams, the lack of investors (ever since the dot-com
crash), and the idea that anyone who is a dreamer must have ADD and should
be put on medication, it seems to me that dreaming and inventing is "out"
right now. It has inspired me to believe that society in the US has to
change before any really ground-breaking inventions show up here...

Of course, things can always change overnight...


Thomas Borchert wrote in
:

Judah,

I think for most people nowadays, there isn't much Magic.


Careful with statements like that. At the end of the 19th century,
common wisdom was that everything inventable had been invented. Things
have changed quite a bit since then...

Wizard of Draws wrote:

Because it's magic.

Thank you - took the words right out of my mouth. :-)

When I'm talking about flying to non-pilots, I tell them that you can
explain all the science and physics to me that you want to, but it doesn't
matter - when the airplane breaks free of the runway and takes flight, it's
pure magic.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. :-)

--

GregR - Another Beemer Biker ...o&o

CA/IFR/BGI - KVNY

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In article , Wizard of Draws wrote:
But now? Hundreds of tons of metal suspended miles above the earth with
nothing to hold it up? Traveling at speeds faster than the earth can
rotate beneath it?

Well, until a couple of weeks ago that happened, but then Concorde was
retired. I don't think any other supersonic aircraft weighs as much as
Concorde.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Youngsters today have no idea who Lindbergh was, or Jimmy Doolittle,
or even Wrong Way Corrigan

Vince, I am pleased that someone else remembers Corrigan.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
Youngsters today have no idea who Lindbergh was, or Jimmy Doolittle,
or even Wrong Way Corrigan

Vince, I am pleased that someone else remembers Corrigan.


Who doesn't remember Wrong-way Corrigan? As a student pilot in the
pre-GPS days I could always point to Corrigan's (supposed) wrong way
flight as an example navigation that turned out even worse than some
of my student exploits.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

Youngsters today have no idea who Lindbergh was, or Jimmy Doolittle,
or even Wrong Way Corrigan

Vince, I am pleased that someone else remembers Corrigan.

all the best -- Dan Ford

Oh, very well! It was big news at the time, and I was already crazy
about airplanes. I was 10 years old, and had just begun to build
airplane models.

My first model was, guess what! A Curtiss Robin!

(For the younger posters, that was the airplane Corrigan flew across
the Atlantic.)

vince norris