Today, the original Wright Flyer airplane designed, built and flown by the Wright brothers is exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum located on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
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From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> On Behalf Of Baker, Mickey, N4MB (Dir, SE)
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 6:56 PM
To: Stratton, John, N5AUS (Dir, WG) <n5aus@n5aus.com>; arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org>
Subject: [arrl-odv:32179] Re: A Wing Across Time and Space
There’s a reproduction of the Wright Flyer in the Wright Brothers Museum at Kill Devil Hills, NC. It’s a large biplane. I’m glad to see that they’re making good use of all that old fabric.
It’s amazing and fortunate that these brothers, self taught, evolved their expertise from bikes to kites to gliders to powered flight.
Mickey
From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> on behalf of John Robert Stratton <N5AUS@n5aus.com>
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 9:48 PM
To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org>
Subject: [arrl-odv:32178] A Wing Across Time and Space
In the long history of mankind it doesn't matter your politics, race, religion, country of origin or gender (or license class) — this is neat:
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/03/24/Wright-brothers-wing-covering-NASA-Perseverance/1541616617351/
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