Re: 480P - Anyone know what this is?

["Martin Euredjian" <martinfx at email.msn.com>]

>>Wilbur and Orville Wright had no previous experience in the design,
>>specification and construction of airplanes... much less flying.  Yet they
>>did a good job of starting us on "the next major step" in transportation.
>>
>Sorry, but Orville and Wilbur were inventing fresh technology, not telling
>Rolls how to make the next version of the jet engine. They were innovators.


Nope.  Otto LIlienthal, of Germany, logged no less than 2500 glider flights
and published a book on aerodynamics in 1889.

Others, such as Langley, had engine-powered flying machines before the
Wright bros.

The Wrights further developed the science and were able to put a man on a
somewhat controllable flying machine.  The first flight was twelve seconds
long.

Here's a neat Wright Brothers (literally) site.

http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/wright/wriframe.html

The point is that Microsoft not having experience on our side of the pond
does not invalidate their opinions or ideas.

-Martin



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