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The wife and I were driving home yesterday, around 1:30pm on US-35 in downtown Dayton when she asked me, "What is that in the sky?"

I looked up, and lo and behold, it's the Wright Flyer!! Or one of a similar type, (they kind of all look the same to me. )

I remember you mentioning it during yesterdays on-line flight, Shane..

...not a sight you see every day!... ...!

Paul....G-BPLF... 8-)...!

P.S. ...when I step back in time, its generally into a pile of Dog Poo!... ...!

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If you've never seen one of these in the air before, you must. It got me to wondering what it must have been like back then to see no other type of plane but these. 8-)

Imagine what it was like when there was only one airplane you might see!!  :o  Even airships and balloons were quite a rare sight back then... it must have been astounding to see a heavier-than-air machine puttering along in the sky.

What struck me the most about it, was how graceful it moved through the sky for as akward and ungainly as it looked doing it.  :D

I'm going to look into this some more, and hopefully come back with some nice pics.

Have you seen this film of Wilbur Wright flying the original in Italy? Click on "See the film" at the bottom of the page. http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/PY/322/fiche_technique.htm?ID=322

Not sure how I discovered it now. I thought someone posted it here but I can't find the thread.

Have you seen this film of Wilbur Wright flying the original in Italy? Click on "See the film" at the bottom of the page. http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/PY/322/fiche_technique.htm?ID=322

From about 1:00 - 1:10 is exactly how it looked. 8-)  That's a great little piece of video to see.  I loved the cockpit views, I can't imagine that was easy or safe, considering the size of the camera equipment back then, and the relative unknowns of aeroplanes.