Timeline for Were the Wright Brothers the first to fly?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 23, 2019 at 17:24 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | @Chronocidal - It would depend if the pilot managed the controls as they were supposed to or not. FYI - my comment was a tongue-in-cheek "observation." | |
| Dec 23, 2019 at 13:30 | comment | added | Chronocidal | @PoloHoleSet If we stuck you in the seat of an F-15, and you crashed the plane, is that the fault of the controls, or the pilot? | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 13:36 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Let's not discuss Pearse's merits here. It's not me 'dismissing' his efforts, it's Scientific American. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 12:46 | comment | added | John Dvorak | @polo if a gazelle tries to zig zag in order to outrun a cheetah but still gets caught, does it mean the gazelle didn't know how to zig zag? | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 17:34 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | If the aircraft responded to his control inputs, and it still crashed the plane, I'd dispute whether the controls were successfully functional. | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 15:43 | comment | added | user18902 | I think you dismiss Richard Pearse's efforts too easily. While his controls may have been inadequate to avoid a hedge, they were based on the same principals as modern thinking on the subject. To say that the flight was uncontrolled is not fair, I think. He had control, the aircraft responded to his control inputs. | |
| Jun 21, 2011 at 21:57 | vote | accept | Monkey Tuesday | ||
| Jun 21, 2011 at 14:36 | history | edited | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2011 at 14:29 | history | answered | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |