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Replica Flyer Foiled By Weather

Posted by timothy on from the first-one-took-a-few-tries-too dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "A replica of the Wright Brothers' 1903 flyer failed to fly yesterday afternoon at a demonstration in Chicago. Organizers blamed the measly 5 MPH winds. Kitty Hawk had 25 MPH back on December 17, 1903. IIRC, isn't Chicago the 'Windy City?'" Here's an earlier story about the various groups attempting to re-enact the Wright brothers' pioneer flight.

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  1. Who is they? by FreeLinux · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lets be clear about this. Who is they? When you talk about space flight and commercial flight you are talking about Lockheed, Boeing, GE and so forth. When you talk about replicating the Wright Brothers flight, you are talking about some acedemic half-wits whose biggest accomplishment is that they were able to dupe someone into giving them a grant for this waste of time and money.