Old Photo - Loop-The-Loop Aviator 1914

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 11:00 pm:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Keith Townsend ; ^ ) Gresham, Orygun on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 11:28 pm:

Good thing he wears a brown suit...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Greg Griffin in Brea, CA on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 04:43 pm:

A Curtiss "headless" Model D; and the earliest photo I've seen of a wristwatch.

Hope he remembers to turn the gas on.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Eviston on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 05:21 pm:

Brings to mind a classic example of wishing I had paid more attention to relatives stories. My maternal grandmother and her first husband lived in the same block as Art Smith in Fort Wayne,Indiana,where Smith was from. The story was he built his first aeroplane in a buggy shed off the alley. IIRC, he crashed it first time he flew it, and it was back to the drawing board. I think there houses were across the alley from one another. My grandma and her husband had an early T, and he a good job. He died in late '12,diptheria.Then grandma an her then two kids damn starved.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Marc Roberts, York, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 08:43 pm:

Greg: That certainly could be a wristwatch, but it might also be a compass. I have a wrist compass like that that was used in WWI.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tim Eckensviller - Thunder Bay, ON on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 08:59 pm:

Interestingly, the wristwatch was created at the request of the pioneer aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gary H. White - Sheridan, MI on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 09:36 pm:

Not much of a seat belt to do loops with. Guts or nuts?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Plank - Three Way, TN on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 10:45 pm:

Loops are positive g maneuvers. Don't need much of a belt unless you goof it up.


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