100 Year Anniversary

[Slick6]

If you do not know, today is the 100th anniversary of flight. I was just wondering where you guys (and girls) would be without airplanes.

 

[milefile]

The same place you would be.

 

[12sec. Civic]

100 years of flight. What can I say. Flight is good.

 

[Jugend]

Meh. It's not that much. Compared to the earths age (and I'm not talking about some crazy 6k christian dating of the earth) 100 years is a rats fart.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

We have come a long way in that 100 years, imagine where we will be in another 100 years.

 

[12sec. Civic]

Originally posted by Rumple Foreskin
We have come a long way in that 100 years, imagine where we will be in another 100 years.

That is the big jaw dropper there.

I am so excited to keep living and find out.

Think of some of the **** we will see even within the next 5 years.

 

[Jugend]

Yeah! Like what will be the next George Forman product?

 

[milefile]

In the next five years we'll get to see the Boeing 777 come into service. Probably not much else. Pretty sad. Development of new technology in aeronautics has taken a nose-dive in favor of profitability. For instance, we used to have supersonic flight. No more. Too expensive. We will see bigger and bigger air busses. Woopee.

 

[Slick6]

Don't you just think how wierd it is that we have just become so technologically advanced in the last 100 years, it is just truely amazing. I think nowadays we just take all of these inventions and take them for granted. If we didn't have airplanes there would be no quick ways of transport, much of our military would be gone, mail would take forever to reach you. Then we'd be using trains, boats, and cars. I just think the airlplane is one of the best inventions ever.

 

[Cobraboy]

Originally posted by milefile
In the next five years we'll get to see the Boeing 777 come into service.

Hasn't that already happened?

 

[milefile]

777-300R, to be more specific.

 

[Cobraboy]

Thank you.

 

[koolsax]

Originally posted by Slick6
If you do not know, today is the 100th anniversary of flight. I was just wondering where you guys (and girls) would be without airplanes.

Make that the 100th anniversary of human-controlled flight. The birth of flight is considered the first hot air balloon flight.

 

[Talentless]

It's said that progress slows with time. This may be a matter of perspective. To the layman, flight is a greater advance than the automatic pilot. But, to experts, the auto pilot may only be deserving of slightly less accolade.

 

[TurboSmoke]

i thought boeing scrapped the 777....but i dont know much about planes....

they say the the wright brothers made the first successful manned flight....but apparently it was some crazy nut in manchester, england that did it a few years before...

i think the next stage in aerospace development will be the use of high altitude aircraft that can leave the earths atmosphere....not strictly outer space but just high enough to escape the majority of the gavitational pull of the earth...this will make flying a lot faster due to less friction...the ionosphere i think...or thereabouts....

 

[Talentless]

I've heard there's controversy over the flight of the first powered aircraft. People obsess too much over firsts. If it were up to me I'd let Europe own any first it wants that can't be factually demonstrated as ours. Heck, Asia can have them. What matters is more is trying to live ethically. That's worth more than being the first at anything.

 

[Ev0]

There's much controversy over who was the first to fly. Many theories give credit to an eccentric farmer from New Zealand (name?)

But aviation's progress has really suffered since the early 70's. Back then new state of the art fighters were rolling out every couple of years and now, it's going to be close to 20 years from when the F22 comes into service since it started development (compare that to the P-51, possibly WWII's greatest fighter which went from drawing board to squadron service in about a year).

 

[Solid Lifters]

Google have something in their logo regarding to the anniversary. That's how I knew.

 

[Cobraboy]

Originally posted by Ev0
There's much controversy over who was the first to fly. Many theories give credit to an eccentric farmer from New Zealand (name?)

It's on the tip of my tongue but I just can't remember it.

Apparently he did it a week or two weeks before the wright brothers or something like that.

 

[Talentless]

Richard Pearse

 

[Talentless]

Although born a farmer, Richard Pearse's real interest was engineering. Remote in South Canterbury and cut off from the rest of the world and its technology, he built an aircraft in his farm workshop that flew. Before the famous Wright Brothers!

In 1899, Richard Pearse at the age of 22, was already building the all important engine that would make it all happen. Fitted with two cylinders, double acting pistons and stuffing box seals around the connecting rods (as per steam engine) it fired both sides of the pistons at both ends of the stroke, effectively making a four cylindar engine in the space of a twin.

After many disappointments and crashes, he was soon achieving powered takeoff flights of up to 50 metres. His first successful flight on 31 march 1903 predates the Wright Brothers flight by over eight months."
http://www.canterburyfare.co.nz/new-zealand/invention/invention-first-flight.htm

 

[Cobraboy]

8 months, I was close!

 

[Talentless]

It might have been Hiram Maxim who was first.

 

[Ev0]

Didn't Maxim develop machine guns for the German army in WWI?

 

[koolsax]

Originally posted by TurboSmoke
i think the next stage in aerospace development will be the use of high altitude aircraft that can leave the earths atmosphere....not strictly outer space but just high enough to escape the majority of the gavitational pull of the earth...this will make flying a lot faster due to less friction...the ionosphere i think...or thereabouts....

I doubt that'll happen. It wouldn't be efficient. By the time you make it all the way up there and all the way back down it would probably be faster to just stay at a normal altitude. Plus, the cost to put a heat shield on the bottom of a plane would probably make the cost of the planes so high as to make the flights on them too expensive. Look what happened to the Concorde. It was way faster, but of course way more expensive, and all the people that could afford to fly on it have their own personal planes anyway.

 

[supra229]

Although I am late I did know it was the 100th anniversary on Wednesday. Whoah!

 

[hanker]

I read in the paper the other day, that in front of 40,000 or so people, somewhere in N.C. a group tried to re-create the wright brothers plane, except this plane did not get off the ground. Goes to prove the brothers (Wright) were ahead of their time.

 

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by hanker
I read in the paper the other day, that in front of 40,000 or so people, somewhere in N.C. a group tried to re-create the wright brothers plane, except this plane did not get off the ground. Goes to prove the brothers (Wright) were ahead of their time.

The re-creation flight was cancelled due to rain - perhaps the Wright brothers were merely ahead of the weather?

 

[Slick6]

And no wind.