Wilson? Who’s Wilson?[%-)]
I’m looking for an identical task the one completed and the other did not It is unlikely that McGuire failed to cross the English Channel by air.
Wilson is as I said the first pilot (and he was English) to cross the Irish Sea, in 1912. Certainly Tom McGuire of WW2 flew in the Pacific so he’s not our boy, and there’s not much he didn’t do except score more victories than Bong, or survive the war. Except he never flew across the Irish Sea either, but probably never tried, so that is not the definition of “unsuccessful”.
Back to the search.
I was just kidding about Wilson, Bill. Don’t let it lead you astray. We still need an answer. What did one do that the other failed to do.
Truly a family resemblance! [:)]
A:
…imagining the sun-baked femur careening higher than 10,000 feet. I think that is what the Englishmen did. Flew and airplane above 10,000 feet.
Guys, we are dying here and it ain’t no spiral!!
[:D]Guys, we are dying here and it ain’t no spiral!!
Recovered from a flat spin!
Well, we are getting warmer, but in 1912 it is quite certain that no one knew what a flat spin might be, and the first successful recovery was waaaay in the future for that variety.
Barrel roll?
How 'bout survive a snap roll, then called a “Dippy Twisty Loop” in 1912?
McGuire’s death came from his unintended low altitude snap roll while trying to escape an attacking Warrant Officer Akira Sugimoto flying a Ki-43 Hyabusa (Oscar).
Or maybe not!
You got it, Matt. A spin is the same as a snap roll, just at a bit lower speed and in the vertical plane instead of horizontal. Either is an autorotation caused by one wing being stalled and the other creating lift.
You get to ask the next one.
OKOK so it’s only fair to ask- having stood in the rain at this bus stop for two nights- if a P-38 kills it’s ace pilot in a snap roll, what the heck and who the heck pulled it off in 1912? Sell me shares in that company!
Where’s Tex Johnson when you need him.
Are you kidding me?
What a guess! I just Googled Thomas McGuire and read about his death on Wikipoop, then Googled “first snap roll” and came up with this result.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=first+snap+roll+airplane+1912
After reading the first few headlines, I just made a wild ass guess. Don’t yet know who the Brit was that survived a snap roll, but came up with Katherine Stinson who did this in 1915.
http://www.ninety-nines.org/thenandnow/aerobaticpilots.html
Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket after that guess about the Martin Mariner, eh?
I’ll think of something soon, hopefully before I fall asleep!
How about this one?
What aviation fete was first performed the day after the Titanic sank?
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly the English Channel.
Geez Louise, I haven’t even finished my ice cream yet!
Unfortunately, she only lived another two and a half months before losing her life while flying in the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet at Squantum, Massachusetts. William Willard, the event’s organizer, was a passenger in her brand-new two-seat Bleriot monoplane. The plane unexpectedly pitched forward for reasons that are still unknown. Both Willard and Quimby were ejected and fell to their deaths, while the plane “glided down and lodged itself in the mud.”
Your turn Bondodude!
Bill, the Englishman’s name was Wilfred Parke, and for a time the spin was known as Parke’s dive. Here is an article in Wiki on the spin:
Wuddat?
I was able to find a nice big picture. There are lots of clues in this photo, so look sharp!
F-5/T-38 familly?
No-bigger