I picked up a laser-cut version of the Wright Flyer…but the figure that rides on it, ie Orville, is just a 2D wooden cut-out.
Do you guys know if anyone actually makes a figure model of those two? Its in 1/20th scale…so maybe a 1/18th or in a stretch a 1/24th
Thanks
-jonathan
Actually, it wasn’t Orville or Wilber that rode that infamous day, It was their neighbor, Hidagard Warrenslocker, who had ranted and complained so much about the noice these two were causing while building the plane, that neither was really sure if they had forgotten something or not. So they strapped the old bitty in and shoved off. Much to their surprise, the old crate really flew and so did Hidagard. The flight wasn’t recorded as the first flight because the old bitty had a heart attack during the flight and died. Naturally, the boys didn’t want that getting around, so they buried good old Hildie right there at Kitty Hawk and set up for another flight which was a success. Now you know the real story[:D][:D][:D]
Yeah but when he was exhumed on that Discovery Channel special, turned out he wasn’t dead when they planted him.
You mean she was a he instead of a she.[:)]Couldn’t the guys tell the differance.[:D]
Transgender surgery was just being recognized then. Not everyone was aware that you could be a little bit of both, but not enough of either.[:D][:D]
The scandel deepens.
ROFL yall are too much!
Far out.
Is THAT how it happened? All those years - those teachers at school surely got it wrong.
Poor old Hildegard. But then again, if the buried her with her bum sticking out of the ground they’d’ have had somewhere to park their bike.
Cheers
LeeTree
P.S. Didn’t really answer your question there, did it, Jonathan?
I always thought a monkey took the first flight. Orville wanted a windshield installed and Wilbur said it wasn’t needed. They put a monkey in to test the wind blast. After the flight, the monkey went AWOL and wasn’t seen untill he started showing up on talk shows. He filed suit claiming pain and suffering from the excessive speed wind blast and retired in Little Rock, working for the Clinton team.
ACK!!!
grrrrrr come ON guys…I’m serious!
And now he lives with his good friend Michael J.
You guys and your revisionist history!! Everyone knows that the first flight had that big General Electric turbofan on the top wing but they covered it up when Hidagard died and then, years later, Yeager did his thing and the rest is supposedly history. Everyone knows commercials are always accurate, arent they?[:D][:D][:D][:D]
Wasn’t this on a Geraldo special a while ago?
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Originally posted by leemitcheltree
Poor old Hildegard. But then again, if the buried her with her bum sticking out of the ground they’d’ have had somewhere to park their bike.
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Oh My God. That was so funny. I just love that Aussie humour!
Jonathan- Don’t you get it? Nobody knows! But they sure know a lot about the little known bits of history, eh?
Thanks for the laughs guys![(-D]
Stinger
All in days humor, hope we raised someones spirits[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
Actually Claymore no it was the History channel.[:D]
Wroper
Did you see the collection of Wright items that sold for 350k, including a signed picture of the first flight.
Was that signed by Hildagard or the monkey[?][?][?][:D][:D][:D][:D]
I am not sure of the church but the brothers father ,Bishop Wright , stated only a short time before the flight that man would never fly! So perhaps it was the monkey?
Dai
Is anybody going to answer his question?