February 18, 2008 at 5:00 pm
So Folks,
To take the discussion that mark started lets look at the interesting list of First Flight Aircraft and which ones should be listed as a UNESCO item and which ones while Historical wouldn’t make the list.
Now I’m only going to list two because the truth be know I’m not much on the First Flight aircraft:o
11903 Wright Flyerwhile we all agree that this should be on the list there is some discussion on how much of it is original well I say it doesn’t realy matter since how many items that are over 100 Years Old have the original items still on them. By my understanding from the Smithsonian is that over 60% is original.
2 1909 XI Bleriots Now this one I add for the simple fact that it change everything with-in Europe with this one flight it open Europe to England and Vis Verca.
Now I’m not sure how many of the very early first flight airframes are left but do we add these to the list and if so which ones and why.
What I would like to see in this thread is that aircraft be listed and then we can discuss the merit of them being on the list.