Biker, Happy Joan of Arc Day!
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Not the best of weather for scooting about! Lot of water lying about, been bad your way?
Yeah been a lot of surface water about and some flooding.
Catch you tonight time to head off.
Bob
Catch you tonight time to head off.
Bob
morning,
the stock market will not read 6666.66 no matter what I do, annoying when that happens. Only 6666.64 so far. With it being creation day too ! Hmpff !
Also the starwars post of jedi sqirrls was popular, most users ever for that.
the stock market will not read 6666.66 no matter what I do, annoying when that happens. Only 6666.64 so far. With it being creation day too ! Hmpff !
Also the starwars post of jedi sqirrls was popular, most users ever for that.
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So, we have a lot of Star Wars fans on the forum then?
well it might have been the confederate defiant post by mesquite, so star treck (deep space 9) or starwars. Did you see the comet coming through about december
live long and prosper !
Today in 1910,
Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States. Blanche Stuart Scott, also known as Betty Scott, was possibly the first American woman aviator.
Born: April 8, 1885, Rochester, New York, United States
Died: January 12, 1970, Rochester, New York, United States
In 1910 Scott became the second woman, after Alice Huyler Ramsey, to drive an automobile across the United States and the first driving westwards from New York City to San Francisco, California. The trip was sponsored by the Willys-Overland Company and the car was named the "Lady Overland". Scott and her passenger, a woman reporter called Gertrude Buffington Phillips, left New York on May 16, 1910, and reached San Francisco on July 23, 1910. The New York Times wrote on May 17, 1910:
Miss Scott, with Miss Phillips as only companion, starts on long trip with the object of demonstrating the possibility of a woman driving a motor car across the country and making all the necessary repairs en route. Miss Blanche Stuart Scott yesterday started in an Overland automobile on a transcontinental journey which will end in San Francisco.
The publicity surrounding automobile journey brought her to the attention of Jerome Fanciulli and Glenn Curtiss who agreed to provide her with flying lessons in Hammondsport, New York. She was the only woman to receive instruction directly from Curtiss. He fitted a limiter on the throttle of Scott's airplane to prevent it gaining enough speed to become airborne while she practiced taxiing on her own. On September 6 either the limiter moved or a gust of wind lifted the biplane and she flew to an altitude of forty feet before executing a gentle landing.[1] Her flight was short and possibly unintentional but Scott is credited by the Early Birds of Aviation as the first woman to pilot and solo in an airplane in the United States, although Bessica Medlar Raiche's flight on September 16 was accredited as first by the Aeronautical Society of America at the time.
Scott subsequently became a professional pilot. On October 24, 1910, she made her debut as a member of the Curtiss exhibition team at an air meet in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was the first woman to fly at a public event in America. Her exhibition flying earned her the nickname "Tomboy of the Air". She became an accomplished stunt pilot known for flying upside down and performing "death dives", diving from an altitude of 4000 feet and suddenly pulling up only 200 feet from the ground. In 1911 she became the first woman in America to fly long distance when she flew 60 miles non-stop from Mineola, New York. In 1912 Scott contracted to fly for Glenn Martin and became the first female test pilot when she flew Martin prototypes before the final blueprints for the aircraft had been made. In 1913 she joined the Ward exhibition team. She retired from flying in 1916 because she was bothered by the public's interest in air crashes and an aviation industry which allowed no opportunity for women to become mechanics or engineers.
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Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States. Blanche Stuart Scott, also known as Betty Scott, was possibly the first American woman aviator.
Born: April 8, 1885, Rochester, New York, United States
Died: January 12, 1970, Rochester, New York, United States
In 1910 Scott became the second woman, after Alice Huyler Ramsey, to drive an automobile across the United States and the first driving westwards from New York City to San Francisco, California. The trip was sponsored by the Willys-Overland Company and the car was named the "Lady Overland". Scott and her passenger, a woman reporter called Gertrude Buffington Phillips, left New York on May 16, 1910, and reached San Francisco on July 23, 1910. The New York Times wrote on May 17, 1910:
Miss Scott, with Miss Phillips as only companion, starts on long trip with the object of demonstrating the possibility of a woman driving a motor car across the country and making all the necessary repairs en route. Miss Blanche Stuart Scott yesterday started in an Overland automobile on a transcontinental journey which will end in San Francisco.
The publicity surrounding automobile journey brought her to the attention of Jerome Fanciulli and Glenn Curtiss who agreed to provide her with flying lessons in Hammondsport, New York. She was the only woman to receive instruction directly from Curtiss. He fitted a limiter on the throttle of Scott's airplane to prevent it gaining enough speed to become airborne while she practiced taxiing on her own. On September 6 either the limiter moved or a gust of wind lifted the biplane and she flew to an altitude of forty feet before executing a gentle landing.[1] Her flight was short and possibly unintentional but Scott is credited by the Early Birds of Aviation as the first woman to pilot and solo in an airplane in the United States, although Bessica Medlar Raiche's flight on September 16 was accredited as first by the Aeronautical Society of America at the time.
Scott subsequently became a professional pilot. On October 24, 1910, she made her debut as a member of the Curtiss exhibition team at an air meet in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was the first woman to fly at a public event in America. Her exhibition flying earned her the nickname "Tomboy of the Air". She became an accomplished stunt pilot known for flying upside down and performing "death dives", diving from an altitude of 4000 feet and suddenly pulling up only 200 feet from the ground. In 1911 she became the first woman in America to fly long distance when she flew 60 miles non-stop from Mineola, New York. In 1912 Scott contracted to fly for Glenn Martin and became the first female test pilot when she flew Martin prototypes before the final blueprints for the aircraft had been made. In 1913 she joined the Ward exhibition team. She retired from flying in 1916 because she was bothered by the public's interest in air crashes and an aviation industry which allowed no opportunity for women to become mechanics or engineers.
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now your taking the mick.
Apparrently theres two, one to shine brightly in october
Not much hope of me seeing a comet down here, with all the cloud and rain. I'll have to look these two comets up, and see what the visibility chances are.
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Happy Creation day chaps! And big congrats to Betty Scott. Learned something new today, I wonder if the media at the time treated her in a very condescending way?
Not a million miles from this actually.
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Not a million miles from this actually.
[video=youtube;LS37SNYjg8w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w[/video]
I'm off to A&E...
Remind me not to show these Pa-inspired posts to my other half again.
I blame Pa for this too.
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Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
What a supportive family you all are ... like a cupless bra.
Every Pa should remember, that one day his son will follow his EXAMPLE, Not his ADVICE.