Flying Magazine on line

[nigelb]

HU - Google books has Flying Magazine available on line from 1930 onwards. Just click the preview link to view.

http://books.google.com/books?id=8BVI6s ... ues_anchor

Nigel²

[DaveB]

That's a great looking mag.. as long as your interests are for all things American


Tks Nige
ATB
DaveB

[nigelb]

Yes, but still interesting to browse through even it if it Americentric! I hope Google will make available some other flying magazine with a less parochial focus.

Nigel²

[Vancouver]

Well they did invent flying (as long as you exclude Icarus of course). Funny, I got a different impression from my quick scan of the wartime issues though. There are a number of Lancaster/Spitfire etc articles.

[Rich]

You might want to read this and follow it up while I peruse the propaganda, seems they only came up with powered flight.

Sir George Cayley
1773 - 1857
British scientist.

He is recognized as the founder of aerodynamics on the basis of his pioneering experiments and studies of the principles of flight. He experimented with wing design, distinguished between lift and drag, formulated the concepts of vertical tail surfaces, steering rudders, rear elevators, and air screws, and built the world's first glider capable of carrying a human (1853). Cayley was also a founder of the Regent Street Polytechnic, London. It is generally accepted that the airplane was invented by Sir George Cayley in 1799 at Brompton, near Scarborough in Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. In 1909 Wilbur Wright himself paid Cayley the following tribute:

"About 100 years ago, an Englishman … carried the science of flight to a point which it had never reached before and which it scarcely reached again during the last century."

[cstorey]

Actually, the first man to fly a powered aeroplance was an Englishman , Richard William Pearse ( 1877-1953), in New Zealand, who flew on 31st March 1903 , about 8 months before the Wrights. The snag was that he crashed on landing , fortunately without hurting himself . I think that his crash is the reason that the Wrights are regarded as the first successful flyers

[Filonian]

Of c ourse he crashed on landing.

He forgot where he was and that he was flying inverted.



Graham

[Garry Russell]

It's been said that Percy Pilcher would have been the first. He was working on promising machines some time before the Wrights but killed himself during 1899 in accident before he got his powered machine in the air.

The powered machine was to be a Hang Glider with an engine attached but the fatal crash in a non powered Hang Glider put paid to his ambitions


How the course of history would have changed ...Keith Harris' duck would have been called Percy

[nigelb]

...Funny, I got a different impression from my quick scan of the wartime issues though. There are a number of Lancaster/Spitfire etc articles.

Thanks for that bit of info - I had not browsed that far yet.

Nigel²