>The true about flight history!!! > > >http://www.thefirsttofly.hpg.ig.com.br/pioneer2.htm > > >Best regards, > >James
If we're talking first flight history, you gotta include this guy. Richard Pearse, first flight: March 1903 (some say 1902), in New Zealand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html His design was the first to use ailerons and a variable-pitch propeller (although the propeller itself was very poor design). Richard Pearse himself claimed to *not* have beaten the Wright brothers to flight, but he considered flight to be completely controlled take-off, controllable flight (ie steerable), and controlled landing. So, when he flew ~1000ft across his property and crashed into a hedge 10-12ft off the ground because the controls didn't work properly, he walked away saying that he hadn't flown. -P _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
