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reimk4526 Send message Joined: 4 Mar 08 Posts: 136 Credit: 200,400 RAC: 0 |
Looks like the engine and chain drive from the Wright Flier itself. |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29720 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
Beinn Bhreagh Nova Scotia, Alexander Graham Bell on the HD-4 hydrofoil boat |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
1909. WINNER! PM to be sent. 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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