Left-leaning bloggers flex muscle in Texas Jul 21, 2008
While former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign is credited as the first to broadly use online tools, Dean's campaign manager Joe Trippi said Friday, "If the (Howard) Dean campaign was the Wright brothers, then Obama was Apollo 11.". Now comes the hard part. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Camp Camp': Remembering a childhood tradition Jul 21, 2008
But it has also become a favorite of high schoolers who live for camp in the present, and to them the era it depicts is closer to Henry Ford inventing the Model T and the Wright brothers taking flight than today. Q: What are the best and worst camp experiences you came across. (San Francisco Chronicle)
America's Only Five Star Generals Jul 16, 2008
By 1909 1st Lt. Arnold had secured a slot in the U.S. Signal Corps as a pilot and was shipped to an aviation school in Simms Station OH where he learned to fly from the Wright brothers themselves. Political ups and downs kept him on the clerical side of the Army Air Corp but he steadily rose in rank and responsibility during and after World War I. By 1941, General Henry Arnold was made Chief of the United States Army Air Forces where he served through World War II. In 1949, he was named as the... (Suite101.com)
A Royal Birkdale strategy must be roughed out Jul 14, 2008
well, Rod Pampling was proof positive that traveling brings with it nuisances that were never an issue before the Wright Brothers had that brilliant idea. His luggage had yet to arrive from Friday night's flight from Atlanta, which is why he was walking Royal Birkdale with just a borrowed sand wedge and a couple of golf balls, while wearing clothes that were the property of his swing coach, Gary Edwin, who walked along. (Boston Globe)
YESTERDAYS: Fourth was noisiest in years Jul 13, 2008
Mr. Copland made his first flight only six years after the Wright Brothers had startled the world with their historic flight, and he has flown the equivalent of more than 14 times around the world. PERFECT SUMMER WEATHER brought out a large attendance at Bradley Hill for the Pet Show held under the auspices of the local council of Girl Scouts and under the direction of Miss Olivia Terrell. (Hingham Journal, MA)
Travel: Fan of N.C. Outer Banks? Jul 13, 2008
We went to Kitty Hawk and checked out the Wright Brothers stuff ... As for must do s in the area, for sure visit the Wright Brothers memorial, Jockey Ridge state park (tallest sand dunes in the country) and if you re into lighthouses, it s worth the drive down south to the Hatteras lighthouse. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Local author writes 6 more books Jul 8, 2008
- WRIGHT BROTHERS: Readers learn about the inventors that made the first airplane flight. - ICE AGE: Readers are educated about the flora and fauna of the Ice Age. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
'Tin Lizzie' illustrates our car-loving culture Jul 8, 2008
Drummond likes to celebrate centennials in his books, as he did with The Flyers, which marked the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight. "Deep down, we all love cars," he says. (USA Today -- Life)
100 years on, a lofty precedent is recalled Jul 4, 2008
"You get told in grade school that the Wright brothers invented the airplane, but it's a great simplification," Doherty said. Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
A century ago, Americans marveled at flight Jul 4, 2008
Learn how the Wright brothers first flight set the stage for the ever-higher flights that followed ... In Europe, by contrast, people were showing up by the hundreds and even the thousands to watch pioneers of flying, said Tom Crouch, a Wright brothers biographer and senior curator of aeronautics at the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museum ... Im well aware of their genius, but I think the Wright brothers also hampered the development of American aviation through... (MSNBC -- Travel)
New Guest at Museum Jul 2, 2008
Writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon will also cameo as the Wright brothers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will actually shoot inside Washington's Smithsonian Institute, while the rest of production will take place in Vancouver. (IGN FilmForce)
State has rich history in aerospace Jun 28, 2008
In 1910, the Wright brothers established the first civilian flying school in Montgomery. Forty years later, Dr. Werner Von Braun s team of German scientists arrived in Huntsville and developed the Saturn V Rocket that in 1969 sent man to the moon. (Madison County Record, AL)
Crazy Machines 2 Review Jun 27, 2008
The Wright Brothers paved the way for modern travel with the advent of the airplane. You too will become an engineer with Crazy Machines 2, the new 2D physics puzzler from publisher Viva Media. (IGN PC Games)
Many feared dead in air crash at Thai resort Jun 25, 2008
Wright brothers first flight & The Moonlanding. Free today with The Times. (Yahoo News -- Thailand)
Students travel to Outer Banks Jun 25, 2008
"They saw a lot of North Carolina history, several lighthouses and the Wright Brothers Museum, it was phenomenal." ... Fifteen students and nine adults departed for the trip at 5:30 a.m. on June 12th and returned on June 14th at 8 p.m. During the trip students toured the North Carolina battleship, took a riverboat cruise, visited Cape Hatteras and the Bodie Island lighthouse, toured The Wright Brothers Museum, attended the outdoor play "The Lost Colony" and visited Jockey's Ridge in Nags Head. (Yanceyville Caswell Messenger, NC)
(Left to right) Matthew Mason, Lonnie Bates, Mark Adams, Hope Sutherland, Sydney Ellis, Hannah Cornell and Elan Locklear pose for a picture at the Wright Brothers Museum. Jun 25, 2008
(Left to right) Matthew Mason, Lonnie Bates, Mark Adams, Hope Sutherland, Sydney Ellis, Hannah Cornell and Elan Locklear pose for a picture at the Wright Brothers Museum. Jun 24, 2008 - 10:31:30 pm CDT. (Yanceyville Caswell Messenger, NC)
McCain: $300 mln prize for new car battery Jun 24, 2008
He also noted the legacy of U.S. inventiveness, left from Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, the Apollo moon landings, the silicon chip and the Internet, among others. "For all the troubles and dangers our energy vulnerability presents, we know that we can overcome them, because we have overcome far worse problems and met far greater goals," he added. (Xinhuanet, China)
Leading the way to cleaner air Jun 23, 2008
But, in an interview with The Arizona Republic last year, Global Research President Allen Wright compared the work in his company's lab to the Wright Brothers' first glider. Mankind has done big things all its life, Wright said. (AZCentral -- News)
Safe roads for everybody Jun 22, 2008
The Wheelmen were a powerful organization with 102,000 members, including the Wright Brothers and John D. Rockefeller. The Wheelmen still exist they are now known as the League of American Bicyclists. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Students of Canada's Top History Teachers Take Up Arms and Go To Trial to Get Better Grades Jun 19, 2008
Isabelle Bergeron and Sylvain Christin Rigaud, QC From the creation of the first electric motor to the steam-power-driven flight by the Wright brothers, the Industrialization of Canada gave rise to modernization. Now, a class of Grade 10 students from College Bourget are going back in time to discover the monumental achievements made during the Industrialization of Canada from 1850 to 1930. (Canada Newswire)
It's hard to know what to believe after review of Ben Stein's movie Jun 19, 2008
" rooster wrote on Jun 18, 2008 7:38 PM:" Note to; Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell & The Wright Brothers ... " cross1242 wrote on Jun 18, 2008 11:23 PM:" rooster @ Jun 18, 2008 7:38 PM said, "Note to; Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell & The Wright Brothers. According to Cross your opinion doesn't matter since you never finished your education.". (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Pilot Walks Away From Airplane Accident Jun 19, 2008
Three years ago, the Federal Aviation Administration named Kroll a Wright Brothers Master Pilot. It is an award earned only by pilots with a half-century of flight. (The Pilot Newspaper)
July 1908: The Winning Flight of the "June Bug" Aeroplane for The Scientific American Trophy Jun 16, 2008
Thus it will be seen that this aeroplane, with the total weight of 650 pounds including the aviator, and with the expenditure of 25 horse-power, is capable of very nearly the same speed that the Wright brothers claim for their 1,000-pound machine with approximately the same horse-power. The reason that this new aero plane is able to make such fast speed with so little horse-power as compared with the Farman and Dela grange aeroplanes, is that the tail has been reduced to a much smaller size than... (Scientific American)
Vancouver inventor creates prototype for 'air car' Jun 16, 2008
Milner's inspiration is the Wright Brothers. That famous photo of the Wright Brothers take off at Kittyhawk hangs in his small workshop. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR -- Business)
Introduction of China's intellectual property system Jun 14, 2008
Those inventions have been recounted in children's books, alongside Thomas Edison's bulb, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone and the Wright brothers' airplane. However, Chinese science and civilization has declined over the past four centuries. (Xinhuanet, China)
Silverjet Rescue Fails as Kingplace Pulls Out of Deal, Administrator Says Jun 14, 2008
The climate for attracting capital in the airline business hasn't been this bad since the Wright brothers,'' said , an analyst at Blue Oar Securities in London, adding that he wasn't surprised by today's announcement. My view was that it would take the backing of a large airline to bring back customer confidence. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Spies to presidents on a visit to the capital Jun 8, 2008
She showed us the capsule that carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon, the original 1903 Wright Brothers airplane, the first passenger airliner, the DC-3 used by Eastern Air Lines in 1936, and a small plane that someone pedaled across the English Channel. As we entered the cockpit of a Boeing 747, I turned to Jake and said, "Isn't this incredible?". (Boston Globe)
Airplanes not the only thing grounded Jun 8, 2008
"We have a passion for the miracle of flight that dates back to the Wright brothers.". david. (Florida Times-Union)
Building a diamond kite through... Jun 6, 2008
Let s just say, the kite flew about as long and high as the Wright brothers first attempt. The final verdict: The kite was too heavy and the bowline was on the wrong side of the frame. (Big Bear Grizzly, CA)
The Last Go-Round Jun 5, 2008
The Wright brothers were flying high in Friday night's performance when Jesse's brother Cody put up an 82-pointer. That held up for first place. (Lompoc Record, CA)
Shes 100 years Young Jun 5, 2008
The year Young was born, the Wright Brothers patented their aircraft, women competed in the modern Olympics for the first time and the first Ford Model T was built. Young remembers her father bought the family s first Ford when she was 14, but she couldn t use it because it started with a hand crank at the front. (Acton Beacon, MA)
How Obama Did It Jun 5, 2008
"In a lot of ways, the Dean campaign was like the Wright brothers. Four years later, we're watching the Apollo project.". Even Obama admits he did not expect the Internet to be such a good friend. (Time.com)
Death of the gas-guzzler Jun 4, 2008
drive blog: Death of the gas guzzler. Death of the gas guzzler. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
If you need to know exactly how fast the wind is, Second Wind has you covered Jun 3, 2008
--The Second Wind C3C anemometer, calibrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology s Wright Brothers wind tunnel, provides high standards of accuracy for most wind assessment applications. --An uncalibrated C3 model provides a lower-cost option for less-demanding applications. (Somerville Journal, MA)
Spring Travel for Families on a Budget Jun 2, 2008
Explore Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, where the two brothers flew the first airplane in 1903. Retrace 12 seconds of flight that changed mankind. (Harrisburg Daily Register, IL)
50 Years Ago in Scientific American: When Baby Boomers Weren't Worried about Wiretaps May 31, 2008
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS WRITE The spring of 1908 found us with [government] con-tracts on hand, the conditions of which required performance not entirely met by our flights in 1905. The best flight of that year, on October 5, covered a distance of a little over 24 miles, at a speed of 38 miles an hour, with only one person on board. (Scientific American)
NC man buys table he believes belonged to Wright brothers May 31, 2008
Durham, Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Region. By CATHERINE KOZAK : The Virginian-Pilot May 31, 2008. (Herald Sun)
Museum exhibits newspaper founded by outspoken editor May 31, 2008
Saunders also was a leader on several landmarks, including the Wright Brothers Memorial, and he crusaded for the first bridges to the Outer Banks, the creation of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and other sites. He died in a car crash in 1940. (The Daily Reflector)
Washington, D.C.: All the elements for a kid-friendly trip May 30, 2008
Our kids loved the early flight exhibit showing the Wright Brothers' plane, as well as the exhibit on the expanding universe. We didn't do the Imax movies, but I think the kids would have liked them. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Indian-Americans win more science, tech honours May 25, 2008
The list has storied names like Thomas Edison and Wright Brothers. Meanwhile, a teenage Indian-American student from North Carolina who began to take interest in cancer research when she was six won the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search , annual competition often termed the "junior Nobel Prize". (India Times, India)
AIRLINE ECONOMICS HITS A PERFECT STORM May 25, 2008
Flying, it seems, hasn't been this chancy and uncertain since the Wright brothers. Prices will continue climbing while travel options shrink. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Scientists Rail Against AIDS Dissent May 23, 2008
The Wright Brothers did it by teaching man to fly. Semmelweiss succeeded in teaching doctors to wash their hands now and then. (Newsmax)
How SciAm Helped the Aeroplane Get Off the Ground May 21, 2008
TAKING FLIGHT: A century ago, Scientific American challenged inventors to a public display of their new manned flying devices, in part due to the secrecy of the Wright Brothers' work following their successful (but secluded) Kitty Hawk, N.C., flights in 1903 ... Curtiss won all three legs of the Scientific American competition (flying three different planes) and permanent possession of the trophy, which now rests in the in Washington, D.C. Although not as much of a household name as the Wright... (Scientific American)
Woman Born Without Arms Becomes the First to Fly an Aircraft Using Only Her Feet May 20, 2008
Now, two years later, Jessica Cox like that of the Wright Brothers, has made history. Barbara has posted several photos located on her website at Non Fiction Editor. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Swiss Man Straps On Jet-Powered Wings and Soars Over the Alps May 17, 2008
Remember the Wright brothers had a humble beginning. Posted by: Fia. (Wired News)
San Jose Businesses To Expand To Airport May 14, 2008
Salvatore Chiaramonte opened a delicatessen on North 13th Street in San Jose five years after the Wright brothers made aviation history. SLIDESHOWS. (NBC 11, CA)
Obama's American spirit could use some idealism May 13, 2008
"Has he ever gotten misty-eyed over . . . the Wright Brothers and what kind of country allowed them to go off on their own and change everything?" she wrote late last month ... So he might do well to answer Noonan by saying that yes, he stands in awe of the Wright Brothers, George Washington, and the westward pioneers ... "Has [Obama] ever gotten misty-eyed over . . . the Wright Brothers?" Peggy Noonan wrote in The Wall Street Journal. (Boston Globe)
Wright photos found May 12, 2008
The first published photograph of the Wright brothers' flight was not the classic image of Wilbur chasing after Orville on Dec. 17, 1903 ... To view both pictures of the historic flights of the Wright Brothers, go to ... Advertisements Jim Nesbitt, Staff Writer The definitive image of the Wright Brothers' world-first flight has been a sepia-toned photograph, faded by time, from those scant airborne seconds of Dec. 17, 1903. (News & Observer)
Supplement: Flying as a Sport May 7, 2008
An article by Wilbur Wright in Scientific American, February 29, 1908. Up to the present time men have taken up flying partly from scientific interest, partly from sport, and partly from business reasons, but a time is rapidly approaching when the art will have reached a state of development such that men can practice it without the necessity of maintaining a private laboratory or a manufacturing plant. (Scientific American)
Develop new energy sources May 6, 2008
These are the same people who laughed at the horseless carriage, laughed at the Wright brothers and chuckled at the first Toyota Prius. We ll build a new segment of our economy around advanced energy. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Lifelong tie May 5, 2008
Boyle dabbled in fly-tying realism himself when he was young, but says comparing his best efforts to Mead's is like comparing the early Wright brothers' planes to jet fighters. Focus and steadiness. (Albany Times Union)
A key part of team May 4, 2008
Of course, measured by trans-Atlantic flights, the Wright Brothers were shabby aeronautical engineers. Without Buzzie Bavasi, there would be no Major League Baseball in San Diego. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
100 Years Ago: Whitest Printing Plant in the World May 3, 2008
FURTIVE FLIGHT Soon after the first reports were received regarding the flights being made by the Wright brothers in testing their aeroplane, a considerable number of newspaper correspondents visited the scene of the trials among the high and pointed sand dunes of the North Carolina coast south of Norfolk, Virginia. The brothers refused to make any flights, however, when the reporters were near at hand, and so the gentlemen of the press were obliged to keep in hiding nearly a mile away from the... (Scientific American)
Parachuting dog helped win WWII May 2, 2008
Early flight no cake walkAviation in the late 1930s and early 1940s, just under 40 years removed from the Wright brothers' feat at , was nothing like the it is today. When World War II began, planes weren't heated , even though pilots were forced to climb to very high altitudes to avoid the enemy. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Peggy Noonan's Litmus Test May 2, 2008
But has he ever gotten misty-eyed over the Wright Brothers and what kind of country allowed them to go off on their own and change everything ... I'm sure Obama is as sentimental as the next guy about the Wright brothers and D-Day and George Washington (to whom he is ). (Slate)
Former teacher brings Edison to life Apr 23, 2008
Edison accumulated 3,500 6-by-9-inch notebooks in which he wrote down "anything at all that I might be able to use," including plans for an airplane, which he did not pursue after the Wright brothers achieved powered flight in 1903. He also explained how he was "almost Canadian," as a result of his great-grandfather being pro-British during the American Revolution and being among 10,000 who went to Canada then. (Pontiac Daily Leader, IL)
A quest to measure what can barely be seen Apr 23, 2008
"It's like the Wright brothers on the first day of flight.". The foundation for Monday's agreement came in October, when the federal government directed $900,000 to the NanoCollege to create the Center for National Competitiveness in Nanoscale Characterization. (Albany Times Union)
Secretary Gates Remarks a... Apr 22, 2008
In 1910 an Alabama businessman leased a cotton field to the Wright brothers. They set up the first flight school here at Maxwell, near base ops today. (DOD DefenseLINK -- News)
Governors Island in N.Y. due for makeover Apr 21, 2008
The island's past is studded with famous names: John Peter Zenger, a German who emigrated to New York in 1710, and was quarantined on the island for medical reasons 25 years before he won a libel case that upheld the principle of press freedom; Ulysses S. Grant, whose 1852 Army quarters still stand; the Wright brothers, who flew from its airstrip in 1909; and the Smothers brothers, a music and comedy pair born in a military clinic in the 1930s. A rock on the island's west shore marks where... (Boston Globe)
PBS's 'Face of America' Apr 21, 2008
Scott Suchman Members of STREB perform at Wright Brothers National Memorial in this "Dance in America" presentation ... From the cliffs of Yosemite National Park in California to underwater scenes of Coral Reef National Monument in the Virgin Islands, from interpreting flight at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk, N.C., to the steamy vapors of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park and the history of Virgin Islands National Park, the movement is melded with the landscape around it. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Thursday's lesson was full of hot air Apr 18, 2008
I wonder if this is what the Wright brothers experienced,' junior Jake Kirtley said as he held onto the side of the filling balloon. Battling the challenges of wind gusts that tore the tissue paper shell, these students saw their experimental hot air balloon fill up and fly away, never to be seen again. (Camdenton Lake Sun Leader, MO)
Going the distance Apr 17, 2008
Just beyond Marina Bay, for instance, is Squantum Point Park, the site of an old airfield where the Wright brothers once flew. Lyons says she likes running the field because it's "fast, flat, and beautiful.". (Boston Globe)
Petropolis a Hill Town in Brazil Apr 17, 2008
When thinking about the invention of the airplane, the Wright Brothers and Bleriot quickly come to mind. In fact, the man who invented and first flew a 'plane was Santos Dumont. (Suite101.com)
The Best Route to Airline Safety Apr 13, 2008
Since 2001, the industry has lost some $27 billion -- inspiring investor Warren Buffett to say that if there had been a far-sighted capitalist watching at Kitty Hawk, he would have shot the Wright brothers' plane down. If there was ever an industry that might be driven to desperate measures, this is it. (Townhall.com)
Pet Friendly Inns Outer Banks NC Apr 10, 2008
The Wright Brothers pioneers the first powered airplane flight on the islands. The Wright Brothers Museum is at Kill Devil Hill. (Suite101.com)
