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Wright B crash
I was working in my garden and watched these guys fly over a couple of times Saturday morning. The plane makes a distinctive sound and moves so slow it just hangs in the air. They chugged off to the northeast and I never saw them again. They crashed about 8 miles from here.
Pilots killed in Wright Flyer crash alerted airport authorities
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08-01-2011, 05:05 AM
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Very sad..
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08-01-2011, 05:31 AM
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 These ancient aircraft are very tricky to fly. Pictured above is a replica 1911 Curtiss Navy seaplane (first seaplane for the Navy), which went down on Keuka Lake in upstate NY on July 1 this year. The pilot was a retired airline pilot who survived the crash. The aircraft has controls that are not intuitive and probably contributed to the loss of control on short final. I imagine Wright's planes were just as tricky to fly. Curtiss was a keen competitor of the Wrights. |
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08-01-2011, 05:46 AM
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Sad.
I live about 4-5 miles from their hangar. The plane was a look-a-like, not a replica, built to modern standards and certified by the FAA. Not as tricky as the original, but still i different bird. RIP.
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Poor guys.
Also goes to show that Orville and Wilbur had some big brass ones.
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I feel badly for their families. I feel badly for them. But these are 2 guys who died doing something that most people on his planet can only dream of. Not the worst way to go. Good on them for having the nuts to do something that damn cool.
Godspeed.
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The organization's website, with some photos of the plane. It's much larger than I pictured in my head.
Wright B Flyer Inc. | Dayton, Ohio Picture #20, 4th from the end gives some scale. http://www.wright-b-flyer.org/photos-videos/silver-bird-photos.html Tragic.
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