Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Original Footage!!! First Flight Mlitary Airplane 1909

I have spent much time previewing and posting all sorts of technology material, including videos covering jet aircraft like the A10 Warthog, the F-22, F35, and SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Starship rockets and boosters, the International Space Station, and Space Probes scouring the planets and other objects in our solar system... least we forget the Voyager I and Voyager II space probes, which are now in Interstellar Space... But where did it all start? Yep manned and unmanned flight began with Orville and Wilbur Wright...

"The Wright Brothers sold their first airplane to the United States Army in August 1909.

Their initial airplane (Model A) was tested at Fort Myer, Virginia on August 20th 1908. After a series of successful test flights, the plane crashed on the 17th of September 1908, severely injuring Orville Wright and killing his passenger, Lt. T. Selfridge.

Despite the disaster, the military was convinced the Wright Brothers had designed a capable airplane and extended their contract for one more year.

The Wrights designed another craft, the Wright Military Flyer. The Military Flyer differed from the Model A in that it had a rather shorter wingspan, longer propellers, set higher off the ground, and had a different gear ratio in the power transmission. These changes were made to increase the speed of the craft. The motor was identical to the one used the year before, however produced slightly additional horsepower as a result of modification.
The footage is from the original test flight in July 27, 1909."Posted by npatou on YouTube on Feb. 16, 2013 and has had 1,641,828 views...

This video has no audio, but you may be mesmerized by how far we have come since the first flight of a military airplane in 1909 in Fort Myers, Florida!

Enjoy my Brothers and Sisters,
Kerry
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