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| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39189 | 07 Aug 17 21:59 |
And here is what Bill Lieb has to say about his sculpture http://www.dglobe.com/news/1365339-chip-ol-block-william-lieb-continues-artisan-tradition-iowa-great-lakes |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39188 | 07 Aug 17 21:44 |
Found it - William Lieb's sculpture, "Letting Go: A New Reality". The sculpture features a child releasing a homemade rubber band powered airplane. http://www.spencerdailyreporter.com/story/1580037.html |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39185 | 06 Aug 17 17:20 |
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| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39184 | 06 Aug 17 17:19 |
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| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 39176 | 02 Aug 17 10:52 |
| You can actually see the small green strips of masking tape I use, to hold the removable nose block in place (the rubber is longer that the fuse). |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39176 | 02 Aug 17 10:50 |
18" Dumas AIR CAMPER - The little "Gypsy" flew like a charm this morning. This is my best close up pic yet, as she gracefully spun by ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39175 | 02 Aug 17 10:47 |
Fully repaired and ready to fly. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39174 | 02 Aug 17 10:45 |
18" Dumas AIR CAMPER - for added strength, I added two "spacer doublers", double white glued between the Cabane struts and along the wing. I used the elastics to hold a "positioning plank" in order to locate the "spacer doublers" - I then just slid out the positioning plank, and let the doublers dry. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39173 | 02 Aug 17 10:39 |
Elastics are used to hold the wing down into position. I then used 5 min Epoxy to glue the flying struts at their 4 locations on the fuse, and to glue the 2 forward cabane struts that were broken off at the wing. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39172 | 02 Aug 17 10:36 |
18" Dumas "AIR CAMPER" - Crash Damage - flying wing struts broken at fuse in three places, and both forward cabane struts are broken off at the wing - front of wing is sticking up way high. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 39143 | 30 Jul 17 20:16 |
| The stories go on and on - one says that Curtiss broke into the Wrights hangar to see how their wing warping worked, then created ailerons, got sued by the brothers who won their lawsuit, then Curtiss put separate ailerons between the wings of his biplane and still got sued ... I think Bleriot also tried to sue anyone who used his patented wheeled landing gear ... |
| rgood, Comment for image # 39143 | 30 Jul 17 11:33 |
| Ah! Glenn... he who highly modified the Langley machine in an effort to claim "it" as the first to fly!!!! He was of course WRONG! Not that he was a bad type - every body wanted to pull Wilbure & Orville down from that position. (and still do it appears) |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 39143 | 28 Jul 17 17:07 |
| It has become quite the fiery and very provocative and captivating debate, from what I have read - the history, the legal battles for patents, the lack of pictures and public flights and lack of eye witnesses, and the arguments over the very definition of "first to fly" ... I just read what the Aviation historians have to say - it is all a very FASCINATING story ... !! Enter Glen Curtiss, the "Forgotten Eagle" ... |
| jgood, Comment for image # 39143 | 28 Jul 17 13:01 |
| The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale recognizes the Wrights to have "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight". A number of people built and even launched machines capable of uncontrolled flight before the Wrights... But that's not very useful, is it? |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 39143 | 27 Jul 17 23:15 |
| Jane's All the World Aircraft will credit Bridgeport's Gustave Whitehead as the first man to build an operational heavier-than-air aircraft http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Aviation-bible-Whitehead-first-to-fly-4348050.php |
| rgood, Comment for image # 39143 | 27 Jul 17 21:50 |
| Where is the hard evidence of all these "would be" first to fly, a fully controlled aircraft, bod's? Photo's - trust worthy witness's etc! |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 39143 | 27 Jul 17 16:58 |
| This plane sort of looks like todays' Ultralights, Yes there is a lot of controversy concerning who was the "first" to "fly" - new books and new evidence. Check out Cecil A. Steeves Oct 10, 1936 affidavit here http://www.deepsky.com/~firstflight/Pages/steeves.html and the Smithsonian "Contract" with the Wright Brothers here http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/Who_Was_First/Smithsonian_Contract/Smithsonian_Contract.htm "Neither the Smithsonian Institution or its successors ... shall publish or permit to be displayed ...any aircraft model or design of earlier date than the Wright Aeroplane of 1903, claiming in effect that such aircraft was capable of carrying a man under its own power in controlled flight." This contract in 1942 was to bring back the "Wright Flyer", which had been sent to England in 1903, back to the US. |
| rgood, Comment for image # 39143 | 27 Jul 17 15:04 |
| I do wonder why so many feel anti-Wright Brothers? They did IT! |
| rgood, Comment for image # 39143 | 27 Jul 17 15:02 |
| Hard to believe that this actually flew! (under control!) |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 39133 | 27 Jul 17 14:29 |
| The Air Camper also hit a tree trunk near the end of one of its flights, and also got stuck in a spruce tree about 4 feet up - no damage - Whew! |
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