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Hill of the Wreck: 1900
Submitted by Ken on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:10am.
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A crumpled glider destroyed by the wind on Hill of the Wreck in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The hill was named after a shipwreck, not the fate of the glider. Photograph by either Orville or Wilbur Wright, Oct. 10, 1900. View full size.
Kiting
Submitted by old_molly on Sat, 10/31/2009 - 8:39pm.
When my grandfather, born in 1887, wanted to emphasize that a person or thing was moving a high rate of speed, he used the term "a-kitin'," as in "He was coming down the hill a-kitin'." I now understand that in his youth, nothing else moved faster than these gliders or "kites."
Sweet dreams
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 11/23/2007 - 6:50pm.
"Sweet dreams and flying machines,
in pieces on the ground . . ."
If it was easy, anybody could do it.
Submitted by SMSgt Mac on Wed, 11/21/2007 - 10:03pm.
Thank goodness they weren't burdened by modern bureaucracy, and modern liability and contracts law, else they never would have succeeded. Can you imagine the calls for an investigation in Congress over an obviously dangerous threat to humanity?
Wrights
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 1:58am.
keep trying guys, you'll get one to fly someday...
Re: Sticks
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 2:50pm.
>> Anybody know what those sticklike are objects on the ground to the right of the glider are? Look like jawbones or bowed slats of a rowboat perhaps.
Driftwood (below).
Hill of the Wreck
Submitted by Mr Mel on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 2:30pm.
Anybody know what those sticklike are objects on the ground to the right of the glider are? Look like jawbones or bowed slats of a rowboat perhaps.
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