Re: [RCSE] Thoughts on the Wright Bros. Centennial

2003-12-19 Thread Dennis and Marion Hipperson
, December 19, 2003 6:31 AM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Thoughts on the Wright Bros. Centennial It's funny that there all these other folks with claims on inventing the airplane (there's another in Argentina), yet they never went on to do anything else with their inventions. The Wright Brothers were never

Re: [RCSE] Thoughts on the Wright Bros. Centennial

2003-12-19 Thread Don Pratt
I hope you're comparing the BSC (Believers in Santa Claus) to the BGH (Believers in Gustave Whitehead), and not the BDE (Believers in Documented Evidence). For my part, I'd much rather put my belief in the well documented than the poorly documented or undocumented. That doesn't mean that if it

Re: [RCSE] Thoughts on the Wright Bros. Centennial

2003-12-19 Thread Rick Eckel
I agree with you. I also think that there is more to the Wright Brothers being the fathers of aviation than the simple? matter of having achieved flight. Their methods, discoveries, documentation and continued efforts in aviation are far more impressive than just getting off the ground. I

Re: [RCSE] Thoughts on the Wright Bros. Centennial

2003-12-19 Thread Martin Usher
- Original Message - From: Dennis and Marion Hipperson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:16 AM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Thoughts on the Wright Bros. Centennial Well maybe, as the Smithsonian Conspiracy shows they woked

Re: [RCSE] Thoughts on the Wright Bros. Centennial

2003-12-19 Thread Raschow
In a message dated 12/19/2003 4:43:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it was left to a French person to come up with the first plane that'd we'd recognize as such. Glenn Curtiss was NOT French! Good Lift!

Re: [RCSE] Thoughts on the Wright Bros. Centennial

2003-12-18 Thread George Gillburg
Whitehead may or may not have flown.  If he did fly sucessfully, he made one mistake the Wright brothers avoided.  He didn't document his flight.  The Wrights took many pictures of their flights including the most important picture of all, the famous picture of the first flight.  If Whitehead had

Re: [RCSE] Thoughts on the Wright Bros. Centennial

2003-12-18 Thread Rick Eckel
Some folks still believe in Santa Claus too. Merry Christmas! Rick At 06:56 PM 12/18/2003, George Gillburg wrote: If you can't document it, it never happened, or so some believe. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL