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Flights Of Fancy: An Air Of Gratitude

Feeling cranky about air travel? Get a flight as well as designing the first
grip.Not on the arm of your passenger hydroplane. He zipped around Europe,
seat--on reality, history, and the flying to fashionable restaurants and
incredible accomplishment of human parking his plane out front, right next
flight.We've just celebrated the 100th to the tethered horses. Where the Wrights
anniversary of the Wright brothers' were methodical and diligent,
historic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Santos-Dumont was a flashy man about town
Carolina. Although there werecertainly known for his daring and his sense of
others who were experimenting with flying style. He cut a dashing figure and
machines--most notably, Alberto inspired everyone from fashion designers
Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian who is widely to engineers. His friend, Louis Cartier,
celebrated in his native country as being created the first wristwatch for him
the father of aviation--the Wright after Santos-Dumont expressed a need to
Brothers are generally regarded as the keep track of time while busily flying
first to get humans off the ground.The his plane.Santos-Dumont didn't give a rip
fascinating thing about the Wright about patents. Instead of spending his
brothers is that they were not the time and money on protecting his designs,
idealistic dreamers you might expect them he freely offered his ideas to anyone
to be. They were serious, studious, and interested in copying and improving them.
determined to figure things out. It He engaged in the shareware idea: take
wasn't that they were obsessed with the this, go forth and prosper. We've seen
dream of soaring high above the ground. this approach in software (Linux) and
They were mechanically-inclined brothers hybrid-electric cars (Hunter and Amory
who owned a bicycle shop, and they Lovins), and though it rarely leads to
couldn't forget the brief but exciting great wealth for the creators, it
flight of a cheap toy airplane they'd dramatically facilitates access and
received as children. They were intrigued ingenuity.After years of flying high,
by the engineering challenge.Let's just Santos-Dumont suffered from ill health
say it--they were geeks. Good thing. Like and committed suicide in 1932. I guess
geeks everywhere, they dug in, immersing neither engineering talent nor courageous
themselves in their research. By individualism guarantees a happy ending.
following their hunch and testing the The Wrights ran out of passion, and
heck out of it, they found the key Santos-Dumont lost his mojo. In their own
component that enabled them to create ways, they simply burned out.It's
that first flying hunk of wood, fabric interesting to think about how we need
and wire capable of carrying a man both the plodding perseverance of the
and--key point here--landing without Wrights and the free-thinking generosity
crashing.The Wright brothers had the same of Santos-Dumont in every project we
access to records of tried and failed undertake. The greatest invention in the
attempts at flight as all other would-be world will never capture the excitement
aviators of the time. They studied birds, of the population without those who are
they analyzed physics properties, and fearless in their attempts to apply it.
they built wind tunnels--just like Those who create the buzz are admittedly
everyone else. Sure, it was their dogged standing on the shoulders of those who
persistence that led them to success, but quietly developed the technology, but we
there was something else that really must have both to bring out the eagerness
helped them nail it. They took one piece of the early adopters and the cultural
of the puzzle and worked relentlessly to change that hinges upon the mainstream
decipher it.Instead of focusing on the acceptance of any new idea.Bill Gates,
force needed to lift the contraption, or that geek extraordinaire, has said: "The
the engine required to power it, they Wright brothers created the single
zeroed in on the concept of control. No greatest cultural force since the
sense having a great flight only to crash invention of writing. The airplane became
into the trees after a few moments of the first world wide web, bringing people
jubilation. It was the issue of control of different languages, ideas and values
that captured their imagination and led together."The next time you're slogging
to a design featuring both through security, struggling to put your
maneuverability and safety.But as focused bag in the overhead compartment, or
as they were on directing the movement of grousing about the leg room, pause a
the flying machines, they failed to pay moment to reflect on the enormity of
attention to the continued testing and human flight. Recognize it for the
refinement of their ideas. They got magnificent achievement that it is, and
distracted by their efforts to control pay tribute to those who lived and died
sales, and the research and development for its creation. Appreciate the risk
division was left flapping in the breeze. taking required in the last century to
While the Wrights got caught up in patent get you that window seat.Please remain
struggles and contracts, adventurers seated until the aircraft comes to a
around the world were improving on their complete stop, and whisper words of
original design and savvy businessmen gratitude to the Wright brothers for
were building airplanes, airports and their determination in discovering what
flight schools. By 1912, Wilbur had died it takes to make a safe landing.You may
and Orville was losing interest in now move freely about the cabin. Please
flying.Meanwhile, Santos-Dumont continued refrain from complaining.Thank you for
his passion for being airborne. He is flying for us, Wilbur and Orville.
credited with launching the first public




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