14-Bis "First Aircraft to Fly" Flight @ Broa Fly-In

Flight of an 14-Bis' replica during Broa Fly-In 2006.

It was the first self-powered aircraft to fly in October 23th, 1906

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@jotathnoble Part25:..to give Wilbur his pocket watch, but Wilbur refused and instead, pulled out his pocket watch and gave it to the old man.

This book I mentioned called "From The Ground Up" is filled from cover to cover with stories like this, all taken from the thousands of letters that were written by those involved at the time, the Wright brothers alone had over 31,000 documents that are currently archived at the Franklyn Intitute over in America and I have read through most of them.

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@jotathnoble Part24: ...picked the guy out of the crowd (by this time 10,000 strong) and asked him if he would like to go for a ride! The old man said yes and Wilbur set a world's record that day for flying with a passenger for 10m30sec. In Wilbur's letter home to Orville about that day, he commented that the old gentleman, who couldn't speak any English, was overwhelmed by the experience and kissed Wilbur on both cheeks after, with tears of joy streaming down his face. The old man tried to...

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@jotathnoble Part23:..bicycles from as far away as Paris, 185km to the north. There was a 68 year old gentleman that had made the trip from Paris twice, on his bicycle, that Hart O. Berg told Wilbur about. Wilbur didn't fly every day, but these enthusasists would show every day, hoping to catch a glimpse of Wilbur flying his machine. When Hart told Wilbur about the older gentleman who had ridden his bicycle from Paris for the second time, hoping to see Wilbur and his machine, Wilbur...

[BearFlight]

@jotathnoble Part22: ...was so difficult and required several hours of training to handle, Wilbur was stuck with having to do all the flying himself. Orville, the world's only other pilot at the time, was busy flying the military version of the Flyer III at Ft Myer, Virginia, so Wilbur was on his own for several months. One morning, when Wilbur left his hotel early in the morning to ride a bicycle around LeMans, he was greated with nearly 2,000 cheering fans, some who had ridden their...

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@jotathnoble Part 21:...with their invention, it seemed that the whole of Europe was ascending on France and all wishing to catch a glimpse of Wilbur and his flying machine. By reading through all of the personal letters from Wilbur, mostly to his brother Orville, you can gain a real insight into the kind of person he was. He was at times overwhelmed by all the attention paid him even to the point of he being embarassed. Wilbur was a scientist, not an aviator, but because flying their machine..

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@jotathnoble Part20: After Wilbur's months of flight demonstrations in late 1908, Farman, Delagrange, Bleriot, and the Zen brothers spent a great deal of time over in LeMans working with Wilbur, with Henri Farman being the first to purchase a users license from Wilbur so he could apply the Wright's patented control system to his biplane designs. Delagrange ordered the first Flyer the Wrights sold in Europe. Wilbur and then a month later Orville over in America, had so excited the world...

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@jotathnoble Part19:..the US Gov, in Dec1907 for a flying machine, so Orville headed back to America, where his brother Wilbur had gone earlier that year. The following June (1908), Wilbur returned to France, picked up the Flyer III at LeHavre and took it down to LeMans (he didn't want to go anywhere near Paris because he deplored attention) and spent the next month assembling it. On Saturday 8Aug1908, Wilbur flew his first European demo flight and the world was astounded by what they had done.

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@jotathnoble Part18:..traveled over to Paris (1907) where he and his European sales manager, Hart O. Berg, had been meeting with officials in France, Belgium, Italy, England, and Germany on those governments purchasing their Flyer. In July(1907), Orville arrived, and he brought with him the Wright's first production Flyer III, but it remained unpacked in its crate at a dockside warehouse in Le Havre, France, where it would remain until May of 1908. The Wrights received the bid request from...

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@jotathenoble Part17:...exciting, so he bought a Voisin brothers biplane and by Sept, he recorded that year's longest flight of 771m. In October, Farman even had his first attempt at the "Grand Prix d'Aviation" award (an award for the first to complete a 360° circle) and though Farman failed, Orville Wright was there to watch and he had some interesting comments. Archdeacon was also there and he really poked a stick at Orville, but Orville just ignored him. The previous May, Wilbur had....

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@jotathenoble Part16: Even after Dumont was able to get off the ground a couple of times in late 1906, the Paris based newspapers started following other Aero Club members that were having success with their machines. Specifically it was Delagrange, Pelterie, Viula, Bleriot, Voisin that were filling the daily headlines for their exploits, but in May1907, Delagrange made news for taking up the first passenger (for 150m), a Paris bicycle builder, Henri Farman. Farman thought it was quite...