Wright Flyer won't fly!

Ron

From latest AW&ST

Picture of 02 glider under tow and off the ground a few feet. Looks
like they attached a "trike' gear to it and also put bows under the
wing tips to prevent damage to them.

Accompanying text:

A replica of the 1902 Wright Glider made 12 flights on Oct 8 from
Wright Experience facility near Warrenton, VA. The 75% scale model of
the 1903 Wright Flyer, with out engine and propellers, is being used
to train the pilot ultimately picked by training coordinator, Scott
Crossfield, to fly the powered 1903 Flyer exact copy at Kill Devil
Hills, SC on Dec 17. Using a small truck to tow the glider, pilots
Terry Queijo, Kevin Kochersberger and Chris Johnson flew during the
early morning flights

end

They talk about the 1902 Glider and then the 1903 Flyer in almost the
same breath. Picture is of a glider not a stripped down Flyer.

In any event, they are continuing to get ready for a Dec 17 try.

I wonder why they didn't choose some pilots that weigh 100-105 pounds
like flew the man powered aircraft across the English Channel and
other flights? A light pilot would give them a leg up on the low
engine power they will have in the replica engine.

Best of luck to them in their try.

Big John



On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:23:12 -0400, "Ron Natalie"
wrote:


"Trent Moorehead" wrote in message ...
I just heard that the Ohio group that has built a Wright Flyer replica and
took it down to Kitty Hawk couldn't get it to fly. I understand this to be
practice flights for the December 17th celebration.

The group that's going to fly at Kitty Hawk on Dec 17 is not from Ohio.
They are out of Haymarket, VA. They are practicing by dragging a
modified 02 Glider around behind an SUV with Scott Crossfield yelling
instructions to them out the back.

"Big John" wrote in message ...


They talk about the 1902 Glider and then the 1903 Flyer in almost the
same breath. Picture is of a glider not a stripped down Flyer.

Yeah, it's goofy. There's no scale model. They built a 1902 Wright glider
(accurately), and they've been tweaking it as they go along to make it more
representative of the 03 Flyer

I wonder why they didn't choose some pilots that weigh 100-105 pounds
like flew the man powered aircraft across the English Channel and
other flights? A light pilot would give them a leg up on the low
engine power they will have in the replica engine.

They're trying not to cheat on Wilbur and Orville. They could do any number
of things to make it easier, but they aren't going to. Kevin is pretty skinny, but
he's a tall guy. Terry isn't that large. It will be one of those two.

About the only thing they have up on the Wright Brothers is a lot more practice
flight time in the 02 variant.

Best of luck to them in their try.

Yes, everybody has worked really hard on this thing and they are almost without
exception nice people as well.