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#4486729 - 08/19/19 11:08 PM Happy Aviation Day  
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Established by FDR in 1939. Coincides with Orville Wright’s birthday.

Let us all celebrate the history and wonder of aviation.

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#4486746 - 08/20/19 02:43 AM Re: Happy Aviation Day [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Originally Posted by oldgrognard

Let us all celebrate the history and wonder of aviation.


Good way to put it. Brings to mind the poem, "High Flight".

#4486747 - 08/20/19 02:47 AM Re: Happy Aviation Day [Re: oldgrognard]  
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As an homage to all those pranged up kites in WWI, the FAA and I went over the mangled hulk of my Nieuport in the hangar.

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#4486751 - 08/20/19 02:59 AM Re: Happy Aviation Day [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Dart, I’m not of the mind that you had a “Happy” Aviation Day. Must be hard to look at her after all the time and work you put into her. Then to see her all crumpled up - must be heart breaking. But you can find some satisfaction that you were following in the steps of those early fliers in actually building their flying machine.


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#4486888 - 08/21/19 04:05 AM Re: Happy Aviation Day [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Naw, it's an opportunity to rebuild her even better than she was before!


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#4486912 - 08/21/19 11:22 AM Re: Happy Aviation Day [Re: oldgrognard]  
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It's pretty mind blowing to think that in just over 100 years we went from having something like the Wright Bros. airplane to having a plane like the F-35! Now THAT is a revolutionary progression.

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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
It's pretty mind blowing to think that in just over 100 years we went from having something like the Wright Bros. airplane to having a plane like the F-35! Now THAT is a revolutionary progression.



There were less than 66 years from Kitty Hawk to Tranquility Base.

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#4486916 - 08/21/19 11:59 AM Re: Happy Aviation Day [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Didn't know such a day existed ....but Have a Good One smile


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#4486967 - 08/21/19 06:27 PM Re: Happy Aviation Day [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
It's pretty mind blowing to think that in just over 100 years we went from having something like the Wright Bros. airplane to having a plane like the F-35! Now THAT is a revolutionary progression.


I for one am glad that one of the Wright Brothers lived long enough to see Chuck Yaeger bust the sound barrier.

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