(At Least) 100 Years Of Powered Human Flight

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 17, 2003 @12:52AM from the culminating-in-southwest-airlines dept.

Rogue-Lion.com writes "Take a time out to remember the accomplishments of two bicycle shop owners who changed the world immeasurably, 100 years ago today. The Telegraph is running a story about a recreation of the Wright's (and world's) first heavier-than-air powered flight. President Bush will be in attendance at the event." Setting aside even more exotic theories, rod writes with an alternative point of view: namely, that man's first flight took place in New Zealand, on March 31, 1902. "I admire the U.S.A and the Wright brothers,but there are facts to consider today, 17/12/03, on the centenary of Kitty Hawk." Update: 12/17 13:44 GMT by T : Or was it a Brazillian invention? (Thanks, Anderson Silva.)

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Re:Try out Zyklon Linux by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2003-12-17 01:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Did you mentally disadvantaged spotty teenager even know that the svastika is a Hindu symbol for good luck?

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Re:Duh. by AllUsernamesAreGone · 2003-12-17 01:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Damn right, sensible people use ISO 8601 ;)
Re:Wrights NOT FIRST to fly! by JediTrainer · 2003-12-17 02:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In addition the wright bros. spent the rest of their time suing people like Curtis who actually made real airplanes and had better aircraft inventions.

So you're saying that the Wrights invented modern-day (ab)use of the U.S. patent system 100 years ago?

Can their descendents sue Amazon et al for prior art?

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