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the_art_of_whore t1_jdtoegp wrote
That's just wrong brother
EmbarrassedHelp t1_jdtpbla wrote
We should be making 3D models of these historic sites along with museum items, so that they can be preserved in spite of damage to the physical object or place.
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TailRudder t1_jdu4uba wrote
Yeah they shipped it by train.
vivekisprogressive t1_jdu5m0d wrote
Why didn't they just fly it there?
sPoonamus t1_jdu62dp wrote
Winds, soft sand to land on, and local population willing to help them.
vivekisprogressive t1_jdu64a1 wrote
No I mean fly it from Ohio to North Carolina.
GetInZeWagen t1_jdu6y7m wrote
The FAA didn't exist yet so they couldn't get clearance
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vivekisprogressive t1_jdu70ds wrote
That's what I figured. They could've been the first people to get frequent flyer miles.
sPoonamus t1_jdu7e6r wrote
Wow the joke flew over my roof so hard it crashed in NC
NothingLikeCoffee t1_jdu9412 wrote
That's why there's the whole Ohio/NC fight over the "First in flight" and "Birthplace of aviation". As a native Ohioan I am obliged to view Ohio as the one who deserves it because 99% of the work was done in Ohio. It just happened to be NC that had a beach they could use at the end.
I think we can both agree though that Connecticut's claim to have flights before both of our states is completely wrong.
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tra91c t1_jduku04 wrote
Chard, in Somerset, has entered the chat.
Edit: wiki link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stringfellow
Now, the wright brothers achieved manned and powered flight, but not powered flight.
Ericovich t1_jdv8og2 wrote
As a Daytonian, arguing over the Wright Brothers will start a fight.
You can't travel through the city without seeing their sites. Their graves are near the highest point in the city. Their flying field is part of Wright-Patterson AFB. Hell, Wright Field has the National Museum of the USAF.
It's deeply ingrained in our local history.
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beanthebean t1_jdvxup4 wrote
My ex from high school lived across the street from their mansion! Very ingrained for anyone growing up in that area.
TheBoctor t1_jdwoniu wrote
Plus, Ohioans have a long and storied history of being willing to do basically anything to get away from Ohio.
Girth_rulez t1_jdx4jyk wrote
I was worried it wilburn down someday.
Girth_rulez t1_jdx55fv wrote
> a native Ohioan I am obliged to view Ohio as the one who deserves it because 99% of the work was done in Ohio.
That's just flat out wrong. The Wright Brothers travelled to (and lived in) Kill Devil Hills for 3 years. The first controlled three axis flights, both powered and unpowered happened at that place. Without the strong, steady winds on that beach the invention of flight would have looked very different indeed.
I will not downplay the role of the work they did in Ohio but trying to claim that it deserves the "first in flight" badge is a very tough argument to make.
Girth_rulez t1_jdx67k5 wrote
>Why didn't they just fly it there?
They did. In 1903 they achieved the first controlled powered flight in Kill Devil Hills. If If my memory serves correct, it was late in the season, and having achieved their objective after three long years of camping in that miserable location they packed up their plane and went home. It was the last time they worked at that location.
For the next several years, until their contract with the US army they flew at Huffman Prarie in Dayton Ohio. There were lots of witnesses but strangely the world wouldn't really know of their success until 1908.
The_Fry t1_jdxhrg3 wrote
It has a high likelihood of death, are you sure you want to go to space?
Well, if it gets me out of Ohio….
The_Fry t1_jdxi21u wrote
And then they spent the rest of their lives being patent trolls, if memory serves me correctly.
dlauri65 t1_jdxxch4 wrote
Did NC schools teach you the Wright Brothers were from NC?
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MineralPoint t1_je1tysx wrote
I was really hoping it would have only been damaged in a small fire. But a large one, dang, that's a like a regular fire but bigger.
TailRudder t1_je3p69y wrote
It doesn't
Stinkyclamjuice15 t1_jdtjbnr wrote
NC person here, my whole life I thought they built it here and then flew it in Kittyhawk. That's pretty wild that they did it all in Ohio and brought it all the way to NC.