This prank image was created in April 2001 after the nonsense about Apollo moon landings got out of hand. After hearing, for 32 years, that the moon landings were fakes I got tired of it. I lifted this image from my alma mater web site and modified it with a publishing program. The original image is below.
Much later I learned that early photography was not able to capture the range of light in the sky without washing out the ground. Photographers used to cut and paste sky, sometimes re-using it. In 2002 such artwork was on display in a museum. Here is my effort based on an image that is the property of Wright State University.
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The attached photo proves that the Wright Brothers flights were really made on the moon, at the same site as the Apollo 16 landing. The whole flight thing is a hoax, done on the moon because of the light amount of gravity.
The current 'crisis' in our airline industry is part of this hoax, to make more money for rich fat catz. Planes don't really fly. Never did. When you get in a plane you are not really flying to Kansas City you are
just in this really fast train with decorative wings.
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This is the real photo of an early glider flight. The pilot seems to be testing the new wing warping technique for right turns. Wright gliders had been flying for several years, mostly at Huffman Prairie in Dayton. The 1903 flight was the first to have power and pitch roll and yaw control. The Wright Brothers built light weight engines, advanced the state of knowledge of aerodynamic lift, and designed control systems for their airplanes.
I used to play ultimate frisbee at Huffman Prairie. Up on Wright Hill there is an interesting park designed by the famous architect Frederick Law Olmsted ( the inspiration for Atlas Shrugged?) The park grounds include three or four small Indian mounds - as much as 10,000 years old. |
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Within 18 months the caption about flying to Kansas City was out of date. The "crisis" I was referring to was that we were being told, in those days, that there was so much incredible demand for airline travel that the skies were becoming dangerous. With airlines going bankrupt by the minute today, it seems funny to think that the skies were too crowded in April 2001.
A related story is that the skies really aren’t too crowded, we just don’t have enough confidence in our air traffic control system to let them fly closer together, like they do in Great Britain. Since the early 1980’s the FAA has been working on a new computerized radar traffic system. Designed by a huge committee like the Space Station. Naturally it doesn’t work. The software doesn’t work. When I was in graduate school in the late 80’s one of my fellow students was working on this system, and hated it. In one class she gave a presentation about the way the engineers wanted it built, compared to what the managers were making them do. Pretty interesting, but the overall story was pretty familiar to me.
Incidentally in one of the 1959 issues of "Flying" there is a long story that says the main reason the boys went to Kitty Hawk was to escape the ridicule of Daytonians. That thing will never fly.