http://crazypilotman.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] crazypilotman.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2008-09-11 12:57 am
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Aviation & Avionics, Thursday September 11, Period 2

As the students were filing in, Murdock was busy writing on the blackboard.

Flight was generally looked upon as an impossibility, and scarcely anyone believed in it until he actually saw it with his own eyes.
~Orville Wright.

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
~Otto Lilienthal

He turned around and faced the class. "You may have heard of the first name, but probably not so much the second one. Though many people know who the Wright Brothers are, there were many who came before them, paving the way into the skies."

(ocd up! coming)

Re: Lecture! Part 2

[identity profile] death-of-hope.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Anemone felt kind of sorry for poor Langley, but that didn't stop her from drawing cartoon pictures of his plane crashing into the river.