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#3548360 - 03/31/12 06:54 PM I live less than an hour away...
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#3548366 - 03/31/12 07:04 PM Re: I live less than an hour away... [Re: 531 Ghost]
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#3548368 - 03/31/12 07:07 PM Re: I live less than an hour away... [Re: 531 Ghost]
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If Orville and Wilbur threw it from the top of that hill, that's cheating wink

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#3548373 - 03/31/12 07:13 PM Re: I live less than an hour away... [Re: U-96]
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Originally Posted By: U-96
If Orville and Wilbur threw it from the top of that hill, that's cheating wink


Ah, but they didn't. wink That was the rule, they could NOT use the hill AND had to go further than 300'.
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#3548375 - 03/31/12 07:15 PM Re: I live less than an hour away... [Re: 531 Ghost]
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#3548387 - 03/31/12 07:34 PM Re: I live less than an hour away... [Re: 531 Ghost]
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Oh I know of Otto, Gherhard Newman, and quite a few others Beach. However, we're talking powered wink and controlled flight from a standing start to go further than 300'.
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#3548394 - 03/31/12 07:56 PM Re: I live less than an hour away... [Re: 531 Ghost]
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Man, I gotta go there one day.

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#3548494 - 04/01/12 12:28 AM Re: I live less than an hour away... [Re: 531 Ghost]
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I hear they just missed that giant stone thingy on their first flight.

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#3548588 - 04/01/12 06:49 AM Re: I live less than an hour away... [Re: Wireman]
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Originally Posted By: Wireman
I hear they just missed that giant stone thingy on their first flight.


<-- by the way, that's their "runway".


This one?
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#3548608 - 04/01/12 08:30 AM Re: I live less than an hour away... [Re: 531 Ghost]
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Dream of Wings is an interesting read. Goes through and shows a nice progression of all those who tried, failures, semi-successes to the Wright brother's heavier than air powered achievment.
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