 |
|
Photos
View |
|
All Photos |
Add Photos |
Emoticons |
Album View |
Mark Unread
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Aug 30, 2007
Description:
Carol and I flew to Kill Devil Hills' First Flight Airport today.
Here's my favorite part of the Wright Boys' Monument. It's a full-size metal reproduction of the famous First Flight Photo, with the Flyer, Wilbur, Orville, and the coast guardsmen who helped them. I love it because you can climb all over the stainless steel Flyer and shake hands with the bronze guys. The National Park Service didn't want it, so the state of North Carolina bought the whole shebang and installed it on their own property, as close to the Monument as they could get it. Take that, Smokey!
Date Taken:
Aug 30, 2007
Place Taken:
Kill Devil Hills, NC
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
FirstFlightFoto_in3D_5857_x150.jpg - Photo HTML
Full size - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZUT10000h">
Medium - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZUT10000m">
Thumbnail - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZUT10000s">
Category:
23, Max Pix
|
|
|
|
|
Click on photo to view the original size. |
| Viewers
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Read what others had to say:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Eric Batterman - Aug 31,2007
Viewers
| Reply
|
| |
Here's the first stainless steel seaplane.<br /><br />BB-1 Pioneer 1931 210hp Kinner C-5; span: 34'2'. Used Savoia-Marchetti S-31 design concepts. First of the stainless steel construction process (US patent #2,425,498 in 1942) — a wire-cloth fabric was first tried, but this proved unsuccessful because technology in tightening this new fabric was unknown, and a standard cloth was used to cover the wings. NR749N is now perched on a mounting in front of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute
| | Attachments:
Budd Pioneer 50s
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
