Tag: airplanes

• How It Feels To Fly Graphically Told By An Aviator

  Previously we’ve learned how to fly a plane in 1910. Now we learn what it feels like for the pilot. “At last the pitiless hour has arrived. Everything is ready. It is time to start. Amid the deafening roar of the motor the aeroplane snatches itself out of the hands of the men holding it […]

  David Friedman

  August 12, 2011

  Development

  Adventure, airplanes, flying, Technology

• Freak Patents That Have Come In With The Aeroplane

  The illustrations and descriptions of crazy flying contraptions that people applied for patents on (sometimes successfully) are fantastic. I managed to find one of the actual patents for a machine mentioned in the article that’s powered by birds. I think the technical drawings in the patent are even better than the illustrations shown here. Check […]

  David Friedman

  July 30, 2010

  Development

  Adventure, airplanes, Humor, invention, patents, Technology

• Hudson Maxim On “A Coming War Of Aeroplanes”

  Hudson Maxim was a chemist and inventor. In this article, he predicts the use of airplanes as fighters in the “next great war,” writing, “there will be new and strange guns and strange missiles in that conflict.” Sure enough, in just a few years World War I would begin, and airplanes would be used for […]

  David Friedman

  June 11, 2010

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  Adventure, airplanes, Glenn Curtiss, Hudson Maxim, Politics, Red Baron, Technology, World War I