The Wright Flyer

["Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>]

I stayed up way to late last night and watched the story on the Discovery
channel about the Wright experience....   There is no way to learn what those
two fellas did a hundred years ago and not feel totally awed by the
accomplishment...

Flight was going to happen with or without them....but they solved so many of
the problems of flight... for me it's like reading about Igor Sikorski
teaching himself the requirements of rotarty wing flight...

The wind tunnel they built was a work of art... as was the flyer itself... not
fancy maybe.... but it worked...

This is going to sound corny.... but I understand thier passion...  it's what
we all do as we get ready to go racing....

They not only invented flight as we know it... but they invented thrashing on
the hot rod before it's maiden voyage....  gotta love it...

K ( how would you like to have to build your own engine...( Dave don't answer
that )