Jon Stockill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jim Wilson wrote: > > > Hmmm... I did a google on "spirit level wright flyer" and nothing came up. > > Any idea what it looks like? > > I was actualyl joking, but now you come to mention it, it probably would > have been quite handy for them keeping the wing level :-)
I know, so was I ;-) They did have some "instrumentation" though. Here's an annotation from Orville's book: "Devices for obtaining records of the time, the distance through the air, and the engine speed were arrainged almost as ingeniously as the machine itself. An anemometer, a revolution counter, and a stop watch, all of which started and stopped simultaneously, were installed on the machine." Apparently they had some trouble with the stop watch, which would qualify as the first instance of flight instrumentation failure. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
