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02-06-2009, 08:34 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: niagara falls
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| Silver Dart flies again The Silver Dart took to the skies today for its first flight , the original was the flown in in Feb 1909 and was the first powered flight in the British Commonwealth the Dart was also the 1st aircraft with ailerons . They did a lot of the construction at the Russell group and was pretty neat watched as it evolved , they moved it to the CWH for final assembly and concrete rwy clear of snow unlike ours little video with this article TheStar.com | Canada | Shuttle astronaut flies replica of 1909 Silver Dart |
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02-06-2009, 08:45 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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02-06-2009, 09:44 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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__________________  "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr |
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02-06-2009, 10:46 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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02-07-2009, 01:17 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ankeny, Iowa
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| Those first pilots were brave souls! Not much to those old crates!
__________________ Bryon O P-61 Black Widow-Mistress of the Night! "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." George S. Patton "Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government." "Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away." |
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