I got a surprising education at the
air show yesterday.
Did you know that a helicopter can
fly backwards? (fer sure)
Did you ever take a look at the
inside of a Medevac chopper? (it's tiny)
Did you know that a stunt pilot in
a biplane can zoom up in a steep climb and then delicately throttle back
just
the right amount to keep the plane motionless in the air, nose
pointed straight up, for an unbelievable number of seconds? (she can)
I know that you know that a plane
can fly upside down for a while, I know it, I saw them do it at the air show, I
still don't understand how that works….
Flying through the air remains a
thrilling concept for me, 110 years after Orville Wright flew a
heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk for the first time in human history.
As we do with many technologies, we
take air travel for granted now.
I think it would have been
marvelous to live in the time when airplanes were a novelty, when people everywhere
still gawked and pointed at the sight of "those magnificent men in their
flying machines."
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