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SOARING 100 celebration OCT 2011 / record flight by Wrights
OCTOBER 22-24, 2011. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA
Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Orville Wright's record soaring flight of 9 minutes 45 seconds in 1911 at Kitty Hawk. Location: Wright Brothers National Memorial and First Flight Airstrip at Kill Devil Hills, NC. Hang soaring and paragliding at Jockey's Ridge State Park Nag's Head, NC, about 3 miles south. Three Days of soaring exhibitions, exhibits, seminars, history, youth activities and final celebration of one of the landmark early soaring flights that marks the beginning of sustained soaring as we know it. The fall 2011 SSA Directors meeting will convene during SOARING 100. Go to vintagesailplane dot org for more details on this event. |
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SOARING 100 celebration OCT 2011 / record flight by Wrights
On Oct 24, 8:42*am, Burt Compton - Marfa wrote:
OCTOBER 22-24, 2011. * Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Orville Wright's record soaring flight of 9 minutes 45 seconds in 1911 at Kitty Hawk. Location: *Wright Brothers National Memorial and First Flight Airstrip at Kill Devil Hills, NC. Hang soaring and paragliding at Jockey's Ridge State Park Nag's Head, NC, about 3 miles south. Three Days of soaring exhibitions, exhibits, seminars, history, youth activities and final celebration of one of the landmark early soaring flights that marks the beginning of sustained soaring as we know it. The fall 2011 SSA Directors meeting will convene during SOARING 100. Go to vintagesailplane dot org for more details on this event. This is a good opportunity to publicize soaring locally also. Perhaps your soaring organization would consider an open house, 'record- breaking' flights (breaking Orville's record that is), and maybe group photos. Invite the local media. See also http://www.firstflightfoundation..org/soaring100.html Frank Whiteley |
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SOARING 100 celebration OCT 2011 / record flight by Wrights
On Oct 24, 8:37*am, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Oct 24, 8:42*am, Burt Compton - Marfa wrote: OCTOBER 22-24, 2011. * Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Orville Wright's record soaring flight of 9 minutes 45 seconds in 1911 at Kitty Hawk. Location: *Wright Brothers National Memorial and First Flight Airstrip at Kill Devil Hills, NC. Hang soaring and paragliding at Jockey's Ridge State Park Nag's Head, NC, about 3 miles south. Three Days of soaring exhibitions, exhibits, seminars, history, youth activities and final celebration of one of the landmark early soaring flights that marks the beginning of sustained soaring as we know it. The fall 2011 SSA Directors meeting will convene during SOARING 100. Go to vintagesailplane dot org for more details on this event. This is a good opportunity to publicize soaring locally also. *Perhaps your soaring organization would consider an open house, 'record- breaking' flights (breaking Orville's record that is), and maybe group photos. *Invite the local media. *See alsohttp://www.firstflightfoundation.org/soaring100.html Frank Whiteley Al little trivia: The site record was not broken for many decades. Despite several years of intensive hang gliding instruction on the dunes in the early 70's, HG performance had not yet reached a stage where it was practical to soar for very long on the small vertical relief found there. However, on Thanksgiving Day of 1974 one of the instructors on site unpacked a new design called a "Thermal Shark"- it featured higher aspect ratio, lower wing twist, and more controllability. Upon setting up the glider, he proceeded o break the Wright Brothers historic record by flying for more than a hour on his first attempt. I remember the details because I designed and manufactured the glider. :-) Best Regards, Gary Osoba |
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SOARING 100 celebration OCT 2011 / record flight by Wrights
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:13:29 -0700, Gary Osoba wrote:
The site record was not broken for many decades. Despite several years of intensive hang gliding instruction on the dunes in the early 70's, HG performance had not yet reached a stage where it was practical to soar for very long on the small vertical relief found there. However, on Thanksgiving Day of 1974 one of the instructors on site unpacked a new design called a "Thermal Shark"- it featured higher aspect ratio, lower wing twist, and more controllability. Upon setting up the glider, he proceeded o break the Wright Brothers historic record by flying for more than a hour on his first attempt. I remember the details because I designed and manufactured the glider. :-) I assume you mean that flight was made at Jockey Ridge near Nags Head, rather than on Kill Devil Hill itself. If so, I'm very impressed. I've flown kites on those sand hills and thought it wan't exactly a big area. I've just measured it on Google Earth and find that its at most 0.6 miles long (quite possibly less) and 0.25 miles wide. Thats a pretty small area to scratch for lift on, particularly, as you say, its pretty flat so the lift won't be strong. Wikipedia says the highest point is 100 ft AMSL. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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SOARING 100 celebration OCT 2011 / record flight by Wrights
On Oct 24, 6:01*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:13:29 -0700, Gary Osoba wrote: The site record was not broken for many decades. Despite several years of intensive hang gliding instruction on the dunes in the early 70's, HG performance had not yet reached a stage where it was practical to soar for very long on the small vertical relief found there. However, on Thanksgiving Day of 1974 one of the instructors on site unpacked a new design called a "Thermal Shark"- it featured higher aspect ratio, lower wing twist, and more controllability. Upon setting up the glider, he proceeded o break the Wright Brothers historic record by flying for more than a hour on his first attempt. I remember the details because I designed and manufactured the glider. :-) I assume you mean that flight was made at Jockey Ridge near Nags Head, rather than on Kill Devil Hill itself. If so, I'm very impressed. I've flown kites on those sand hills and thought it wan't exactly a big area. I've just measured it on Google Earth and find that its at most 0.6 miles long (quite possibly less) and 0.25 miles wide. Thats a pretty small area to scratch for lift on, particularly, as you say, its pretty flat so the lift won't be strong. Wikipedia says the highest point is 100 ft AMSL. -- martin@ * | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org * * * | Yes. -Gary |
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