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Eugene Burton Eli lands an airplane on a ship. https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/18-january-1911/This is the plane landing, the prop is in back. Arresting hook to catch on ropes between pairs of sandbags “precisely weighed so that the Curtis would not slew to one side” 🙂 ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/2SK33TyL/D08-E3621-A881-4-C08-81-A9-50-C3-A5-F0-FD43.jpg)
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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And now we have thousands of belly button pilots!
Seriously, every step in aviation has had a first step, and this was one was quite remarkable. 8 years after Wilbur and Orville leaped into the sky. 36 years later we went supersonic....
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Nother shot from the previous November (1910), taking off from a ship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Burton_Ely![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/pX56gL8N/B5-C824-D3-2383-49-BA-B69-B-AC555-CBB6746.jpg) Sadly, Mr Ely crashed on 10/19/2011 when he failed to pull out of a dive in time, jumped free of the wreck, died shortly thereafter
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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I often think about the fact that my grandfather, when he was alive, had seen man go from the first flight at Kitty Hawk to men walking on the moon. If you think about that, it is almost incomrehensible for that much technology advancement in that little time.
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Nother shot from the previous November (1910), taking off from a ship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Burton_ElySadly, Mr Ely crashed on 10/19/2011 when he failed to pull out of a dive in time, jumped free of the wreck, died shortly thereafter Damn that's purty awesome exactly 100years after he died he did the exact same thing and died again. NOW I don't care who you are, that's accomplishing something!
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My hat is off to the guys who fought the enemy, fatigue, damage, and wounds to successfully land a crippled plane in WWII.
Amazing.
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
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I often think about the fact that my grandfather, when he was alive, had seen man go from the first flight at Kitty Hawk to men walking on the moon. If you think about that, it is almost incomrehensible for that much technology advancement in that little time. Amazing ! ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/PqQ06H4F/87278454.jpg)
Roy What this world needs is a few more Rednecks. The Dildō Of Consequence Rarely Arrives Lubed The “Only Trumpers” can assure a Dem victory at least as easily as the “Never Trumpers”.
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Nother shot from the previous November (1910), taking off from a ship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Burton_ElySadly, Mr Ely crashed on 10/19/2011 when he failed to pull out of a dive in time, jumped free of the wreck, died shortly thereafter I believe he died in 1911, Birdy. Got away from the wreck and died of a broken neck.
Retired cat herder.
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I often think about the fact that my grandfather, when he was alive, had seen man go from the first flight at Kitty Hawk to men walking on the moon. If you think about that, it is almost incomrehensible for that much technology advancement in that little time. I, too, have often thought about the technological changes my grandfather saw in his lifetime. He was born in 1856 and died in 1955. A short list: trains, electricity, lightbulbs, indoor plumbing, toilet paper, horseless carriages, Wright bros first flight, radio, television, atomic bombs, super sonic jets..... Simply mind blowing and all within the lifetime of a single generation.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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My wife's grandmother moved to MT from CO in a horse drawn Conestoga. She flew for the first time in 1978, to Alaska from Miles City in a jet (2 actually) passenger plane, to our wedding.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
"It would have been a good distance shot if they hadn't been so far away". Seth Kantner in "Shopping for Porcupine"
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Any and all interested in Naval Aviation, you owe it to yourself to visit the museum at NAS Pensacola.. Truly an amazing place.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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The first guy to perform a “proof of concept” about carrier aviation. It’s one thing to propose something and talk about it; it’s another thing to take bull by the horns and actually do it for the first time. 🫡
Jorge is right about the museum at NAS Pensacola.
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