1910 Pither Monoplane 

Is this a "When Pigs Fly" story

What was his name ? Is there any other literature of his exploits ?

@@stephencrowther524 My great grandfather I should have said. There is a plaque in KL House commemorating him. He used an air-cooled kerosene engine which developed 12 hp which allowed him to achieve flight without the weight and pulley system which the Wrights used but didn't allow him to gain altitude above 50 feet due to the livestock. He had to take the animals as his sponsors insisted the flights be commercial.

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Probably spent a few hours on a simulator first !

@@metalmicky Well that would be cheating - the first pilot didn't have a simulator.

They did say this version is 75kg heavier than the original... which is a huge amount given the circumstances.

You need a flight with a concorde or 737 max to answer your question. Future airplane related deaths. They are just having fun. It is not smt commercial.

TURGAY DEGIRMENCI Concorde had a good safety record. Just one fatal crash.

i think if you bult them well with some extra safty features they ll excell thr crappy pipers or cessna safety

+Boater not if the original motor couldn't produce enough power per weight

+freshcaughtbass That's when you trundle OVER the cliff and HOPE your maths are correct.....before deceleration trauma sets in.

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Unfortunately that's as much as it flew on that particular day.

DrFrankensteam

DrFrankensteam I believe that is all it can do.with that huge low powered engine, but it did fly even if briefly.

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It was a re-enactment of what Pither did and this was done successfully. Pither himself said after the flight "It just wanted to fly." And fly she sure did.

This is a 2005 recreation .

I'd have flown it---at 3 feet off the ground

Lol

I lol'd hard at that one!

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It is the same reason there were no witnesses when the B-2 first took flight other than the flight team. The first of anything is always ripe to be stolen by another designer

+A5mod3us That is a valid criticism. I would add that the area of the stabilisers is completely inadequate. But we should remember, we are looking at this from 2016 (or close) and this is a reproduction of an aeroplane that's 105 years old. For us today, with our knowledge, to get this in the air is some achievement, but if Mr Pither really did have it flying in 1910, that is a very significant achievement.

lol

Cate nhrdsics

Oh shit I didn't know that what a donut 😂 sorry mate I didn't see it my bad

Nah,Curtiss might have refined it some but no,he did not invent it. IMO,neither did the Wright bros like the claimed they did. It was actually patented around 1865 by a British man.

Nice bro

It would be Experimental I think.

Ha ha :-)