Wright Flyer won't fly!

"Trent Moorehead" wrote in message
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"mike regish" wrote in message
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Where'd you hear this? I'd like to learn more.

mike regish

I heard it on a local radio station, WPTF out of Raleigh NC. I just heard
it
again. This time they said they are packing up and heading home after they
couldn't get it to fly. I'll try to find something on the web....

Here it is:

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Wright flyer replica doesn't get off the ground


The Associated Press

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A group that built a replica of the Wright brothers'
first airplane is headed home after it was unable to get the plane off the
ground in North Carolina, a spokeswoman said.
The Wright Brothers Aeroplane Co. tried for five days to launch the replica
Wright Flyer, said spokeswoman Marion Schniegenberg. But they were
unsuccessful and were packing up their equipment on Monday.
"Bottom line is, after five days, we did not achieve a successful, sustained
flight," Schniegenberg said.

The group built the flyer in Dayton and trucked it last week to Currituck
County Airport, about 40 miles from Kitty Hawk, where Orville and Wilbur
Wright made the first powered flights in 1903. They invented the airplane in
their hometown of Dayton.

The aeroplane company's director Nick Engler said last week that the flyer
was making short hops of about 10 feet off the ground but that there wasn't
enough wind to keep it airborne.

The Wright brothers made four flights against winds of about 25 mph.

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On the Net:

Wright Brothers Aeroplane Co.: www.wright-brothers.org

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It would appear that this isn't the only replica, but being the one from the
Wright Brothers Aeroplane Co., it would seem the most "official".

-Trent