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Liberals Ignore The Wright Brothers
One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century -- indeed, one of the
landmark inventions in the history of the human race -- was the work of a couple of young men who had never gone to college and were just a couple of bicycle mechanics in Dayton, Ohio This annoys me, the Wright's were not bicycle mechanics who blundered into flight by persistence, they were true scientists and self taught engineers who supported their research by selling and repariing bicycles. That is not the same thing and they should not be dismissed as mere mechanics. Don -- Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS PP-ASEL Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG |
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Wdtabor wrote:
One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century -- indeed, one of the landmark inventions in the history of the human race -- was the work of a couple of young men who had never gone to college and were just a couple of bicycle mechanics in Dayton, Ohio This annoys me, the Wright's were not bicycle mechanics who blundered into flight by persistence, they were true scientists and self taught engineers who supported their research by selling and repariing bicycles. That is not the same thing and they should not be dismissed as mere mechanics. He wanted to stress the "humbleness" of the Wrights (ie. "never gone to college") but was then forced to ignore their excellence by that agenda. While I - of course - knew of the Wrights, I've been reading a lot about the process through which they went over the past year (thanks to publications like "Pilot"). They were impressive in several ways, not the least of which was their persistence. In fact, would people like this - willing to risk life and limb on so unlikely a venture - be classified as insane today? Or, more likely, would someone be trying to sue them into oblivion for something or other (ie. watching a glider caused some poor victim to have sleepless nights)? - Andrew |
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Stepen Coonts wrote a humor piece for AOPA about the government getting in
the Wright brother's way. I believe you need an AOPA membership to read the article from this link... http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pi...ights0012.html "Andrew Gideon" wrote in message In fact, would people like this - willing to risk life and limb on so unlikely a venture - be classified as insane today? Or, more likely, would someone be trying to sue them into oblivion for something or other (ie. watching a glider caused some poor victim to have sleepless nights)? - Andrew |
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Andrew Gideon wrote:
Wdtabor wrote: One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century -- indeed, one of the landmark inventions in the history of the human race -- was the work of a couple of young men who had never gone to college and were just a couple of bicycle mechanics in Dayton, Ohio This annoys me, the Wright's were not bicycle mechanics who blundered into flight by persistence, they were true scientists and self taught engineers who supported their research by selling and repariing bicycles. That is not the same thing and they should not be dismissed as mere mechanics. He wanted to stress the "humbleness" of the Wrights (ie. "never gone to college") but was then forced to ignore their excellence by that agenda. While I - of course - knew of the Wrights, I've been reading a lot about the process through which they went over the past year (thanks to publications like "Pilot"). They were impressive in several ways, not the least of which was their persistence. In fact, would people like this - willing to risk life and limb on so unlikely a venture - be classified as insane today? Or, more likely, would someone be trying to sue them into oblivion for something or other (ie. watching a glider caused some poor victim to have sleepless nights)? The XPrize people don't seem to be slowing down too much. Not just Rutan, either. I'd say the Wright brother's 'insanity' lives on in avaition. Even the zero-time wannabe student who wanders into his local flight school and stammers, "Um... I'm, uh, interested in learning to fly?" has some tiny sliver of that spirit. (let's face it, there are safer methods of transport, and there are *certainly* better ways to make a living!) Brian - PP-ASEL/Night - |
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No - they'd have been labelled ADD and put on Rittelin (sp?) so that they
could sit in their house watching TV all day and getting fat... Andrew Gideon wrote in online.com: snip publications like "Pilot"). They were impressive in several ways, not the least of which was their persistence. In fact, would people like this - willing to risk life and limb on so unlikely a venture - be classified as insane today? Or, more likely, would someone be trying to sue them into oblivion for something or other (ie. watching a glider caused some poor victim to have sleepless nights)? - Andrew |
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Cute article. Too bad it's so true.
"Michael 182" wrote in news:CcLBb.357107$275.1165052@attbi_s53: Stepen Coonts wrote a humor piece for AOPA about the government getting in the Wright brother's way. I believe you need an AOPA membership to read the article from this link... http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pi...ights0012.html "Andrew Gideon" wrote in message In fact, would people like this - willing to risk life and limb on so unlikely a venture - be classified as insane today? Or, more likely, would someone be trying to sue them into oblivion for something or other (ie. watching a glider caused some poor victim to have sleepless nights)? - Andrew |
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