Re: Apple I recreation revisited

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <vmsn8d9lvvhkef@corp.supernews.com>, brad <mrbrad@ll.net>
top-posted (grr):
>"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
>20030921181628.19971.00001834@mb-m28.aol.com">news:20030921181628.19971.00001834@mb-m28.aol.com...
>> In the other thread, some people questioned why recreate the Apple I.
>>
>> Today on the Discovery channel I watched a documentary about a project
>> funded by Ford Motor Company to recreate the Wright flyer, the first
>> airplane to achieve powered flight. Watch this program and you will see
>> the 'why' to recreating the first airplane is the same as the 'why' in
>> the recreation of the Apple I.
>
>i think i heard that they tried to fly it a couple days ago or some such and
>the beast could not fly....supposedly it is an exact copy of the orig wright
>bro plane

What I read on the subject was that the winds weren't strong enough...they
needed a fairly stiff headwind to get enough lift, and the weather wasn't
cooperating.  (The first flight was into a 25-mph wind.)

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