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First Hundred Years
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FTLComm - Oshkosh Wisconsin - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 |
With many newspaper and television stories on the December
17, 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk there is no need for us to go through this event here.
The picture above is the aircraft that will make the flight to replicate this remarkable
event. Both Ford and Microsoft pitched in with sponsorships of this project and the
Experimental Aircraft Association provided the organisation for the commemoration.
The first Wright brothers aircraft was little more than some sticks and fabric with
a unique light weight internal combustion engine. It had elevators and something
that could be considered rudders but roll was controlled by actually warping the
wings. It was four years later when the aileron was invented. Since then the aircraft
has made steady progress up until the mid 1930. By then the limits of a piston engines
were reached and regulation pretty much locked down the way aircraft and their power
plants were constructed.
During my life time the metals have improved, plastics introduced, the turbine engine
refined and the introduction of electronics into the control, navigation and operation
of the aircraft. It sounds like a lot but the essentials had been achieved long before
World War II began in Asia.
To celebrate the occassion of the achievement of powered flight I thought I would
just toss you some pictures Andrew and I took this summer at the AirVenture event
at Oshkosh.
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Home Built
Neuport 17
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Looks Like a
Rearwin Cloudster
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Bi-plane racer
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Grosvenor House
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Dehaviland
DH88 Comet
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Monoplane racer
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Meyers
Interceptor 400
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Parasol
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Stinson "Detroiter" 1929
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Stinson "Detroiter"
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Stinson SM-6000-B Tri-Motor, 1931
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Bushmaster
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Sikorsky S-38
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Sikorsky S-38
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Sikorsky S-39
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Sikorsky S-39
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Waco D series
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Travel Air 6000
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Inside the Travel Air
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Johnson Rocket 185
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Stinson
Voyager 108
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Cessna Crane
Bamboo Bomber
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Cessna 172
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Beech 18
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Close to the Beech
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Late model
Beech 18
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Marine version of the Beech C-45
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Beech 18 parking
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Lockheed 10A Electra
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Timothy W. Shire
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