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Message 1071349 - Posted: 28 Jan 2011, 3:05:59 UTC

Looks like the engine and chain drive from the Wright Flier itself.
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Message 1071471 - Posted: 28 Jan 2011, 10:22:25 UTC

Beinn Bhreagh Nova Scotia,
Alexander Graham Bell on the HD-4 hydrofoil boat
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Message 1071490 - Posted: 28 Jan 2011, 13:09:32 UTC - in response to Message 1071348.  

1909.

Baddeck, Nova Scotia

Silver Dart.


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The Silver Dart was the first heavier than air flying machine designed, built and tested in Canada, or anywhere in the British Empire, when it first flew in February 1909. Some uppity Brits contest that last bit, because the engine was built by Glenn Curtiss in Hammondsport, NY to the designs of Bell's Canadian/Scottish/US team.

This photo shows the ice sled used to test the engine and train pilots (see the little dummy elevator at the front?), and was taken on frozen Bras D'Or Lake only a few days before the first flight.

Carlos, I would have taken Beinn Bhreagh for the location, that was the name of Bell's estate overlooking the lake. But the SD-4 was a very different looking beast with twin Renault automobile engines. And it wasn't built until 1910.

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