It could take off at will and fly around like any
conventional airplane.
Of course all that was cheating :)

Paul Lamar

Paul, The part that I find interesting is that the Wright Flyer that
they have in the Smithsonian was built from sketches that one of the
Wrights did from memory! ALL the efforts to be genuine may have been

WRONG! Bill Jepson

True. Some of the projects took that into consideration.
Repaired by the Wrights of course after the crash on the day it first

flew.

It was then shipped to England. The Wright flyer stayed in a museum in
England for years and somebody over there made engineering drawings.

The drawings are still there in England. It was shipped back to the states
"restored" and is now the one in the Smithsonian.

Paul Lamar

Barnhart wrote:

Flew the Wright Flyer simulator at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh today.  Crashed
both times.  VERY pitch sensitive. I knew that going in.  They also had some
obstacles in the sim that got me. Most people don't last 5 seconds.  The two
ladies running the sim said that everyone had crashed.

Barny
MGDQ 20bt

 
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