And that is a BIG perhaps they were the first to achieve sustainable
flight.
They certainly worked hard at becoming know as the "fathers of aviation"
tho.
http://www.deepsky.com/~firstflight/Pages/gpage6.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse
And Pearse made everything on his plane, including the engine, which the
Wrights
contracted out.
And there was also a frenchman whose name escapes me.
Dennis
On 16/01/12 4:54 PM, DMcD wrote:
Wilbur and Orville invented the "airplane" so that's what it should
be called IMO. I'll go along with "ramp" too.
They did what?
I can't think of one thing that they invented.
Perhaps they were the first to achieve sustainable, controlled, powered
flight.
Maybe I can think of things they patented which set the US aeroplane
industry back a decade or so, but nothing comes to mind that they
actually invented.
And their predecessors and contemporaries called them 'Aerodromes'.
D
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