Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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23 January 2009
08:2213568Not sure but is it 100 years on Years on the 25th July since Bleriot flew the Channel? I am not sure if it was 1908 or1909.
One thing for sure, in 100 years we have come a long way with aviation. Back then they were just starting the age of flight with just a few trying to get up into the clouds. Now most people want to fly some where and then there are those that want to cut back on flights. I just wonder what the likes of these young pioneers in flight would think if they were to come back and see what they started.
Guest 682- Registered: 19 Jan 2009
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23 January 2009
08:24135691909 Harry - 25th July
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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23 January 2009
08:3113570Hi Harry I was lucky to go to Dayton Ohio home of the wright Brothers in 2003 for the 100th anniversary of the first flight and actually flew on a remade 1911 Wright 'B' flyer.Scary.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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23 January 2009
10:1113573A pioneer in aviation was Percy Sinclair Pilcher. Unfortunately, when he was wishing to demonstrate his flying machine in September 1899, he is said to have engine trouble, and so, not wishing to disappoint his audience, went up in his glider instead.
This he'd flown successfully many times before, even achieving a record for the longest distance covered. This time there was a technical problem, and he crashed, dying two days later. There's a memorial to him at Stamford Hall, in Leicestershire, where he crashed, and a replica of his Hawk is at the Hall also.
It's one of the great "if onlies" of history - Cranfield University, over a hundred years later, tried his design, and after a bit of tinkering, it worked. If poor Pilcher hadn't been killed, maybe he'd have been the one to achieve the first powered and controlled heavier-than-air flight.
As for a hundred years since the Channel crossing, what always amazes me is that such was the development we could have just a few years later - something Dover knows all about, of course, having had the first bombs dropped in Britain falling there in December 1914 (in the harbour, and then, famously, on Christmas Eve)
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23 January 2009
12:5813590100 years hence this summers celebrations
http://www.dover2009.co.ukBeen nice knowing you :)
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23 January 2009
17:4713623Well done to the D.D.C. for what they are doing for it later on this year I did offer to help but that was turn down, and I think I know why but i am looking forward to it all again well done.
Vic MATCHAM
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23 January 2009
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23 January 2009
18:3013634Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Bit confused but it seems like the Red Arrows is just a flypast as they have displays in Sunderland and Dorset that day.... ?
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Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Paul about 15yrs ago humphy and i were at an airshow at RAF Mildenhall on a Bank holiday Monday, the red arrows had spent the night there the took off and flew a full display over Southend on sea followed by a display over Ostend then a display over us then off to there base. Three displays a day is not unusual.
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Just checked the website:
25 - Sunderland International Airshow, Tyne & Wear
25 - Swanage Bay Regatta & Carnival, Dorset
25 - 100th Anniversary Bleriot (Flypast) Dover 2009 Event
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Bugger
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Oh well, perhaps they will do a loop the loop for us !!
Shame also that the 100+ microlights won't be benefitting the area and will be heading up todays Medway somewhere....
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Not news Paul, I posted this weeks ago, always has been a 'between displays' flypast....
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Interesting talk by Jon Iveson this evening and a few hints towards what is happening over the 25/26 July weekend...
Saturday - static displays at Duke of Yorks School, large events/stands of the seafront. 300 microlites. Red Arrows and French equivalent. Lancaster. Several replica Bleriots in the late afternoon. Fireworks that evening. Markets, music, displays on seafront.
Sunday similar without the flypasts.
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sounds great paul.
looking forward to it immensely.
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Was at the Townhall to hear jon Iveson talk about the Bleriot weekend along with the Guy from Cresting limited, they are the people who are arrangeing the weekend celebration's for DDC so it was interesting to hear what he had to say about costings and I know this will be discussed at Town council tomorrw.
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I was going to say they best get a move on at the memorial but they are now there excavation with an archaeologist on watch.
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They'll have to work hard to get it completed for late July.
Roger
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38 days to be precise !! They will be laying the last sod as the dignitaries arrive !
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