On 28/04/2015 13:11, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> PVK <pv.kirkland@gmail.com> wrote in news:bYadnX_NGdP2-
> qLInZ2dnUVZ8qWdnZ2d@giganews.com:
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>> Mitch, thanks for these sets. I know of Old Rhinebeck, but these
>> pictures really give a sense of the place and its atmosphere. I suppose
>> the British equivalent is Old Warden, and no doubt there is a lot of
>> communication between the two. Lovely stuff.
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> It is odd that flying started in the US but for the
> first two decades the Europeans made all the advances
> in it. The US did not field a single combat plane in
> WWI and had to rely on French loaners. Most of the
> replicas at Rhinebeck are copies of European machines.
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"It is odd that flying started in the US..."
Indeed it is, however, as here is an an article upon someone else with a
claim, and who was also known as "the Father Of Manned Flight", or the
"Father of Aeronautics", and to whom the Wright brothers owed a lot due
to his experiments some fifty years previously:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3042182.stm
Incidentally, he also invented caterpillar tracks, self-righting
lifeboats, tension-spoke wheels - as used on bicycles, automatic signals
for railway crossings, seat belts, small scale helicopters, and a kind
of prototypical internal combustion engine fuelled by gunpowder.
http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/Century_Before/First_Airplanes/First_Airplanes.htm
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