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vivekisprogressive t1_jdu5m0d wrote
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Why didn't they just fly it there?
sPoonamus t1_jdu62dp wrote
Winds, soft sand to land on, and local population willing to help them.
vivekisprogressive t1_jdu64a1 wrote
No I mean fly it from Ohio to North Carolina.
GetInZeWagen t1_jdu6y7m wrote
The FAA didn't exist yet so they couldn't get clearance
vivekisprogressive t1_jdu70ds wrote
That's what I figured. They could've been the first people to get frequent flyer miles.
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sPoonamus t1_jdu7e6r wrote
Wow the joke flew over my roof so hard it crashed in NC
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Girth_rulez t1_jdx67k5 wrote
>Why didn't they just fly it there?
They did. In 1903 they achieved the first controlled powered flight in Kill Devil Hills. If If my memory serves correct, it was late in the season, and having achieved their objective after three long years of camping in that miserable location they packed up their plane and went home. It was the last time they worked at that location.
For the next several years, until their contract with the US army they flew at Huffman Prarie in Dayton Ohio. There were lots of witnesses but strangely the world wouldn't really know of their success until 1908.
The_Fry t1_jdxi21u wrote
And then they spent the rest of their lives being patent trolls, if memory serves me correctly.
TailRudder t1_je3p69y wrote
It doesn't
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