Wright Brothers bicycle tools
04-06-26 | 10:00 AM
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04-08-26 | 08:22 AM
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04-08-26 | 09:10 AM
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Just went to Wikipedia. Sure looks like both MacCready birds used wing warping though there is not a word of it. Seems like those birds, despite brains of weights probably under a gram each, figured out this advanced stuff without wind tunnels, computers, FEM models ...
They decided to discard Lilienthal's data and generate their own. They built a wind tunnel, the second in America. (The first was built byAlfred Zahm.) Over the winter of 1901-1902, they tested over 200 wing shapes to find the most promising, then thoroughly investigated about 45 shapes to determine the very best. To do this, they built two instruments for their wind tunnel, one to measure lift and another to measure the ratio of lift to drag.
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04-08-26 | 09:23 AM
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04-08-26 | 09:40 AM
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Charlie Taylor must have been a pretty interesting character in his own right, to be ginning up super light gas engines in 1902. "Mechanic" seems like a drastic understatement.
Their first wing-warping patent was rejected and they learned that lesson a little too hard, because their 2nd one with a patent lawyer was accepted, but that led to a 15-year patent war with all comers
Their first wing-warping patent was rejected and they learned that lesson a little too hard, because their 2nd one with a patent lawyer was accepted, but that led to a 15-year patent war with all comers
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"Well, well!" said Holmes, impatiently. "A good cyclist does not need a high road. The moor is intersected with paths and the moon is at the full."
Genesis 49:16-17
"Well, well!" said Holmes, impatiently. "A good cyclist does not need a high road. The moor is intersected with paths and the moon is at the full."
04-08-26 | 12:05 PM
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04-09-26 | 08:51 AM
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I haven’t seen it, but yeah. The park ranger at the Kill Devil Hills memorial explained that the facility the brothers set up there really wasn’t much other than living quarters, and storage for the aircraft. Anything other than very minor maintenance resulted in the craft/component being transported back to Dayton for the work.
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04-09-26 | 11:47 AM
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I haven’t seen it, but yeah. The park ranger at the Kill Devil Hills memorial explained that the facility the brothers set up there really wasn’t much other than living quarters, and storage for the aircraft. Anything other than very minor maintenance resulted in the craft/component being transported back to Dayton for the work.
Dan
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