PILOT SPIN
Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: PeterNSteinmetz on October 23, 2021, 04:32:36 PM
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Ohio plates have the banner attached at the wrong end of the Wright Flyer.
https://apnews.com/article/7529e8a5796c88b6b9a0dca290c4aa2b
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I thought banner pushing was a thing!
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LOL!
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Can't wait until someone mods the banner to read "Fuck Joe Biden"
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Wait. What holds the thing up....in the sky?
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Wait. What holds the thing up....in the sky?
Bernoulli, duh. ;D
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Bernoulli, duh. ;D
I beg to differ.
-I. Newton
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dinero. it only takes lots and lots of dinero
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Nice quality control, Ohio. Dipshits.
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I beg to differ.
-I. Newton
Okay, I. “Barn Door” Newton.
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Not our proudest moment. Thankfully no other state has to worry about such a thing, since airplanes were invented in Ohio and all.
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Not our proudest moment. Thankfully no other state has to worry about such a thing, since airplanes were invented in Ohio and all.
Not by this generation though.
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Bernoulli, duh. ;D
Ahhhh, no. MONEY. ;D
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Thankfully no other state has to worry about such a thing, since airplanes were invented in Ohio and all.
Yes, but they couldn’t be flown there. They’re had to come to NC to actually fly them.
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Not our proudest moment. Thankfully no other state has to worry about such a thing, since airplanes were invented in Ohio and all.
Ohio sucks.
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Ohio sucks.
The only thing good about Ohio are the Put in Bay island area.
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Yes, but they couldn’t be flown there. They’re had to come to NC to actually fly them.
You mean that initial set of little hops off the rail? To really fly them they went back to Huffman Prairie just outside Dayton ;)
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You mean that initial set of little hops off the rail? To really fly them they went back to Huffman Prairie just outside Dayton
I seem to recall reading that the reason they went to NC was they needed a windy spot where they could fly gliders and, most especially, fly the gliders tethered like kites. They wanted to learn the basics of flying an airplane before they started their powered flights. I don't think the tethered-glider idea actually worked out in practice.
Tim
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I seem to recall reading that the reason they went to NC was they needed a windy spot where they could fly gliders and, most especially, fly the gliders tethered like kites. They wanted to learn the basics of flying an airplane before they started their powered flights. I don't think the tethered-glider idea actually worked out in practice.
Spot on. This was one of the significant insights of the Wright Brothers -- as I always point out to people wanting to learn how to fly. Learn to fly gliders first! It gives an excellent sense of how a set of wings and controls handles in the air.
I really like the book "The Bishop's Boys" in terms of its giving a feel for what their thinking and experience must have been like.