Comments on: Keep the faith, brother http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=keep-the-faith-brother Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:01:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Elfin Ethicist http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-324 The Elfin Ethicist Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:03:14 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/#comment-324 <strong>History Carnival XXIV...</strong> He found matter of study to fill a hundred years, and his education spread over chaos. Indeed, it seemed to him as though, this year, education went mad. -- The Education of Henry Adams The Official Souvenir Guidebook of theWorld's Cliovian Exposition... History Carnival XXIV...

He found matter of study to fill a hundred years, and his education spread over chaos. Indeed, it seemed to him as though, this year, education went mad. -- The Education of Henry Adams The Official Souvenir Guidebook of theWorld's Cliovian Exposition...

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Brett Holman Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:48:41 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/#comment-305 Sure, that's why I said "so to speak", I was referring to it's not taking off in the market sense, not in the aeronautical sense ... alluding to the latter meaning was just an attempt at humour ... Sure, that's why I said "so to speak", I was referring to it's not taking off in the market sense, not in the aeronautical sense ... alluding to the latter meaning was just an attempt at humour ...

]]> By: Chris Williams http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Chris Williams Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:18:32 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/#comment-304 I thought that the problem with the Flying Flea wasn't with the 'taking off' bit, but with the 'flying around and not crashing fatally' bit. I thought that the problem with the Flying Flea wasn't with the 'taking off' bit, but with the 'flying around and not crashing fatally' bit.

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Brett Holman Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:31:23 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/#comment-303 I had no idea that Weir was into autogyros as well! I love autogyros, they are such a dead end. Though his biography (<em>Architect of Air Power</em>) says that the driving force behind that venture was his younger brother, James. Still, it does boost his credentials as an airminded person. Another equivalent from the thirties might be the <a href="http://www.valkyrie.net/~flyingflea/gallery.html" rel="nofollow">Flying Flea</a>, something like a modern home-built microlight, which was promoted by the Air League, though it didn't take off (so to speak!) I had no idea that Weir was into autogyros as well! I love autogyros, they are such a dead end. Though his biography (Architect of Air Power) says that the driving force behind that venture was his younger brother, James. Still, it does boost his credentials as an airminded person.

Another equivalent from the thirties might be the Flying Flea, something like a modern home-built microlight, which was promoted by the Air League, though it didn't take off (so to speak!)

]]> By: Chris Williams http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Chris Williams Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:50:49 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/01/20/keep-the-faith-brother/#comment-302 For me, the epitome of this kind of stuff is Alberto Santos-Dumont pottering round Paris in Numero 14 (or thereabouts), mooring outside his favorite cafe, buying a drink, then flying off home. _Demoiselle_ is in the Musee de l'air et l'espace, in Paris. Not the most beautiful aeroplane ever built (answers to that particular question should be sent on a postcard addressed to 'FD2 Competition'), but close. Interwar equivalent - the Weir Autogyro? Now Weir - there's an airminded bloke if ever I saw one, who was also responsible, if Boyle is reliable, for asking Trenchard's IAF to target German civilians in 1917. For me, the epitome of this kind of stuff is Alberto Santos-Dumont pottering round Paris in Numero 14 (or thereabouts), mooring outside his favorite cafe, buying a drink, then flying off home.

_Demoiselle_ is in the Musee de l'air et l'espace, in Paris. Not the most beautiful aeroplane ever built (answers to that particular question should be sent on a postcard addressed to 'FD2 Competition'), but close.

Interwar equivalent - the Weir Autogyro? Now Weir - there's an airminded bloke if ever I saw one, who was also responsible, if Boyle is reliable, for asking Trenchard's IAF to target German civilians in 1917.

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