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On this day in 1903, German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flew his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers. He flew for nearly 200 feet at an altitude of 18 feet in front of four witnesses. He ended up founding a plane factory, but did not have much success. Today we have the song Big Blue Sky by MINISNAP from the album Bounce Around on Magic Marker Records.
posted by Sean at 12:22 AM
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http://www.flyingmachines.org/jatho.html
many consider Karl Jatho's "flying" to be "hopping", and largely an uncontrolled hop at that!
There is no reason to doubt that man powered flight occured prior to the Wright effort. There were many gliders, and adding a power plant to one of these was would not be a leap of technology. What the Wrights did was to make an aircraft system, aerodynamics, power, and effective control systems, features every aircraft today utilizes.
Most major complex inventions utilize work done previously. This does not degrade the genius of the invention. The Wrights did use other peoples work and, by scientific method, used/modified/corrected it to generate something that worked.
Great song, as are the other songs I've heard from this CD. This is a definite buy.
(may I call you)
Mini Moxie, That is an astute analysis. Do you write for Wikipedia?
I don't need to write, I have a computer, I cut and copy.
I've cut and and copied that foam hand graphic several times. Thanks Chris!
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