Remembering the Wright Brothers: Bangalore pilots pay tributes to the Brigh

[sudhir007]

Tarmak007 -- A bold blog on Indian defence: Remembering the Wright Brothers: Bangalore pilots pay tributes to the Bright Brothers

 

[Koovie]

I guess this is some kind of holiday for all pilots and aviation fans....
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. SO HAPPY FIRST FLIGHT DAY!!!!

 

[ironman1]

though most must be knowing but rather than celebrating wright brothers , we should celebrate "Shivkur Bapuji Talpade" day .


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Hundred years after Orville Wright’s first flight, K R N SWAMY remembers Shivkur Bapuji Talpade, the Indian who flew an unmanned aircraft, eight years before Wright.

Orville Wright demonstrated on December 17th 1903 that it was possible for a ‘manned heavier than air machine to fly’. But, in 1895, eight years earlier, the Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Bapuji Talpade had designed a basic aircraft called Marutsakthi (meaning Power of Air) based on Vedic technology and had it take off unmanned before a large audience in the Chowpathy beach of Bombay. The importance of the Wright brothers lies in the fact, that it was a manned flight for a distance of 120 feet and Orville Wright became the first man to fly. But Talpade’s unmanned aircraft flew to a height of 1500 feet before crashing down and the historian Evan Koshtka, has described Talpade as the ‘first creator of an aircraft’.

When Was The First Aeroplane Flown In India? - Blurtit

in addition to it i remember reading an article 10 or so yrs back about it which told that british took over the designs of the aircraft built and mister Talpade was forced to abandon his work . the parts of the aircraft remained in his home but as time moved on , were sold as scrap . a legend buried in time .
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why do we forget our own achievements and look upon west ????

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

I guess this is some kind of holiday for all pilots and aviation fans....
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. SO HAPPY FIRST FLIGHT DAY!!!!

I dont think so...i never got a holiday on this day.

 

[simplex]

There are many technical problems with Flyer I 1903. The plane was unstable, underpowered and had propellers that appeared only in 1908, exactly in the same year when the Wright brothers flew for the first time in front of credible witnesses, more than 8 months after Orville Wright saw Henri Farman flying in Paris on 18 Nov. 1907. The brothers simply lied about their flights in 1903-1905. They built their planes in France in 1908 with french engines (Barriquand et Marre), french propellers and using the entire French flight experience of 1908.

Search on the net for: "The Wright brothers the two impostors United States is proud of" for more information.