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Week of December 12, 2010
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with the damage repaired, Orville took the controls and flew 120 feet in 12 seconds. Three more flights followed that day — Wilbur flying 175 feet in 12 seconds, followed by Orville’s 200-foot flight for 15 seconds, concluding with Wilbur flying an amazing 852 feet in 59 seconds. All the flights were kept to about 10 feet above the ground.
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• Within minutes of the fourth flight, a gust of wind flipped the Flyer Please over several review carefully. Double check: Phone Number(s) Spelling Pric LOCALS ONLY Nutritious times, causing extensive damage. The plane feeding program to revitalize was shipped home and never flew again. Many ●Trees ●Rose Bushes ●Shrubs ●Plants ●Flowers years later, Orville restored it, and the craft was The Auctionarium c/o Billy Burke pg. (760) 4C 26x 322-6192 or visit us online lent to several museums before settling into its 1/4 Call permanent home in 1948 at the Smithsonian Dec. 12, 2010 Vol. 6 - No. 51 where it can be seen today.
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• There were five witnesses to the flights, three of them members of a U.S. government life• Wilbur and Orville Wright began their working saving crew, an area businessman and a local ADVERTISING PROOF careers in 1889 in the printing business, teenager. The newspapers seemed to pay no publishing The West Side News in Dayton, heed to the monumental feat for nearly TUES., OCT. 13a year 5:00 p.m.. Final Changes DUE: Ohio. Four years later, the pair opened a and aDouble half. Even the Wrights’ hometown Dayton Please review carefully. check: Phone Number(s) Spelling Prices Hours bicycle rental and repair shop, later branching Journal didn’t publish the story, claiming the out into bicycle manufacturing. In their free flights were “too short to be important.” Proof created Property of by: time, they studied what was then known of • In May of 1906, the Wrights were granted a patent aeronautics and experimented with building a for a “flying machine.” They incorporated as 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 flying machine. valleybits@msn.com The Wright Company in 1909, not only selling All Rights Reserved • They incorporated their knowledge of bicycle aircraft, -but also transporting commercial air BILL FLUSTER Computer Services construction into the design of their plane. Promptly at 2:22 p.m. BZ BW cargo 6x rateand running a flying school as well. One Familiar with the principles of balance, chain their famous pupils was Henry “Hap” 4x - Oct.of18, 2009more V5-43 and sprocket systems, wind resistance and aerodynamic shaping, they recognized the need Promptly at 11:07 a.m. for a sturdy but lightweight craft. Starting with gliders and constructing their own wind tunnel, The Public is invited to I CAN HELP!! the Wrights experimented for four years before ☻ Apple Specialist THE AUCTIONARIUM their historical first flight. N HELP!! ☻ Repairs & Upgrades Sunday Auction Preview Party! ☻ Email & iPhoto Instruction • They chose the Atlantic coast at Kitty Hawk, & ☻ Entertainment System Setup SENIOR Complimentary Mimosa’s & Sunday Bloody T STUDEN North Carolina, as the site for their manned TS Marys for all registered bidders. DISCOUN Friendly & Patient Consulting AFFORDABLE RATES! Services for the Coachella Valley gliding experiments because of its consistent PREVIEW PARTY STARTS @ 12:33 p.m. breezes and soft landing surface. They began CALL FREE REGISTRATION! BILL: ONLY PAY FOR WHAT YOU WIN! practicing their steering and gliding skills there in non-powered designs in 1900. They FEATURED ITEMS INCLUDE: constructed the Wright Flyer I in 1903 out of production • Teapots - Nippon, English & more Proof created by: spruce and muslin fabric, carving their own • Frogs, Ducks, Decoys HRS: MIN: • Fish & Animal Carvings & Figures wooden propellers. A gasoline engine built in stamp Proof created Property of by: • Assorted Estate & Gift Items Phone: 320.0997 Fax: 320.1630 AdVenture Media the bicycle shop was added, and the craft was valleybits@msn.com and MUCH, MUCH MORE! Precision ready for its Weight inauguralLoss flight.
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