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On 15/11/2014 03:09, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> JimNot@home.com wrote in news:DUq9w.99050$ZT5.47070@fx07.iad:
>
>> Thank you very much for the picture. It means a great deal to me. I
>> recognized the aircraft as the RF-101C on display at the Air Force
>> Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Fairborn, OH.
>> My father worked on the development of the RF-101 in the AF Avionics
>> and accomplishments over Cuba and in SE Asia. He spent a lot of time
>> keeping me out of the ejection seat when I was about 5 years old! He
>> was an old cold warrior who left us last spring. He is remembered in
>> the Avionics Laboratory the Wall of Fame for his contributions to
>> aerial and space based reconnaissance.
>> Thanks again for the trip down memory lane.
>
>
>
> I have a soft spot for airplanes built
> in that era, when jets were a new technology,
> when struggles with materials and supersonic
> speeds tested everyone's imagination and when
> planes were designed by people, not computers.
>
> Perhaps that is a byproduct of growing up
> in the 1850's for which I am always glad. A
> most interesting time.
>
Yes, you could have been around to see this:
"After having built several models (with an interruption to explore the
possibility of an Aerial Carriage of 1843), Cayley concentrated on
experiments with full-size gliders. He built his first full-size glider
in 1849 and initially carried out trials with ballast. Later that year,
the ten-year-old son of one his servants became the first person in
history to fly when he made a short flight in a Cayley glider.
Four years later, in 1853 and fifty years before the first powered
flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Cayley built a triplane
glider (a glider with three horizontal wing structures) that carried his
coachman 900 feet (275 meters) across Brompton Dale in the north of
England before crashing. It was the first recorded flight by an adult in
an aircraft."
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/cayley.html
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