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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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18 Dec 2003 02:59:37 PM |
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OT: The Wright lesson |
The Wright lesson
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/04/20/the_wright_lesson/
A hundred years ago, the Wright brothers grabbed the lead in the quest
for flight. So why was American aviation so slow to take off?
By Chris Mooney, 4/20/2003
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. - Orville Wright once wrote of this place that
it was "like the Sahara, or what I imagine the Sahara to be." If he
and his brother Wilbur could return today to the site of their
historic first flight -- 120 feet in 12 seconds, on Dec. 17, 1903 --
they would hardly recognize their surroundings.
Although the wind still blows strongly here, there's no sand in sight.
In the late 1920s and early `30s, in order to erect a monument to the
Wrights atop big Kill Devil Hill, where the brothers tested gliders,
the ever-shifting dune had to be "stabilized" with introduced shrubs
and grasses. Today, much of Wright Brothers National Memorial is
overrun with prickly-pear cactus -- hardly the kind of cushion the
brothers would have wanted for hard landings.
Orville Wilbur Wright
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