Contraption
Officially, it was about thirty-three minutes after the Wright Brothers first succesful flight when someone said, out loud mind you,
"Imagine if we could put guns on these things?"
Unofficially, Orville Wright threw a rock during his first flight, missing Wilbur by inches.
Quite the romantic period, really.
9 responses
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Carlos Aviles gave props (14 Jun 2009):
Beautiful
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Donald Garrett gave props (14 Jun 2009):
A perfect shot, K!!
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Ted Opderbeck gave props (14 Jun 2009):
Talk about a death trap - real nice capture though!
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Nancy Richard gave props (14 Jun 2009):
I like this one a lot, too! Reminds me of Snoopy and the "Red Baron"!
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Alexis Gerard gave props (19 Jun 2009):
How great to see one of these WWI relics in flight
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Tim Foltz gave props (7 Jul 2009):
very nice Kevin
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Sandy Tyler gave props (10 Aug 2009):
Cool image!
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Rob Case gave props (21 Aug 2009):
A rather Jolly good time if memorey serves me correctly! Yours, etc. Biggles, Flight Lt.
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Rob Case gave props (21 Aug 2009):
Ok...here's what gets me. This plane is a friggin' work of art in wood and ...it actually FLIES! "We" can build this stuff and, like you've pointed out so well, we immediately warp'em' up into nasty killing machines! OH THE HUMANITY! Your pix of these planes accompanied with your copy make excellent points. Kevin, you need to make a book of them - a juxtaposition of the beauty of their creation and the dirty insanity of their final use.
