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Glenn Curtiss
 
 
 
 
 
 
       
 
 
 
 
      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
 
 
Santos-Dumont   " Demoiselle " 
 
 
 
 
 
 
      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wright Brothers    Model B     1910   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
       
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Cool ED! Thanks! Can't imagine what its like to have started with
Shanks mare then
horses,  steam engines, automobiles, airplanes, jets, rockets to the moon and now electric cars....
all in one lifetime!!!!
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
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A V Roe                AVRO   
 
 
 
      
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
         
 
 
 
 
       
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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LZ-1                Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
 
 
 
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin     and the first zeppelin  the LZ 1   Started in 1898, finished in 1899,  first flown in 1900.  Lighter than Air aircraft. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
LZ-2
 
 
LZ 2
 
 
 
Tail of LZ-3, showing significant improvement in stabilizers compared to LZ-1 and LZ-2
 
 
LZ 3
 
 
 
LZ-4 leaving its hangar on the Bodensee for the 24 hour test flight that ended in the crash at Echterdingen.
 
 
LZ 4 
 
 
     
 
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Originally posted by budperm budperm wrote:

Cool ED! Thanks! Can't imagine what its like to have started with
Shanks mare then
horses,  steam engines, automobiles, airplanes, jets, rockets to the moon and now electric cars....
all in one lifetime!!!!

Great statement, and often overlooked, Bud. We went from horse and buggy to rocket ships in one generation. 
If at first you don't secede...try..try again.
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Yessir, we went from heavier-than-air flight off the ground to landing on the Moon in 66 years!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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" Did we do all that in only 66 years?? " 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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" Earth to Tom Bwokaw......Earth to Tom Bwokaw....! "  
 
 
 
 
 
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Nieuport  20 HP     1910       more on Nieuport later.....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
      
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Coanda 10     The World's First Jet??    Well, kinda        Flew once and burned  Shocked
 
 
 
Circa 1910! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A Coanda Sled     Probably never tested      Bucky
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Valkyrie   Monoplane   
 
 
 
 
 
       
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
Walden          The First American Monoplane  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Dufaux  Brothers      Swiss     
 
 
        
 
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
       
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
        
 
 
 
Breguet     The Flying Coffeepot   Bucky
 
 
 
 
 
       
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
        
 
 
Blackburn Second Monoplane  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
Glenn Curtiss  Floatplane   1911  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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