Michael McLay <mmclay@comcast.net>: > Let's go easy on the kiwis. They don't always get their due. It > looks like "Mad" Pearse [1] may have flown before the Wright > bothers, but since he was a perfectionist he did not try to claim > the title. <wink> Most people seem to agree that he managed to get off the ground, which was a non-trivial achievement at the time, but it wasn't what you would call a controlled flight. The Wrights were still the first to actually make a plane go where *they* wanted it to go. :-) Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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