Hasn’t your “Micro-jet” in the picture actually got a propeller pushing it?

During the 68-73 period I recall that we went through a combination of three basic colour schemes on the Cranwell JP’s and that with each there was a mixture of those with and without College badge transfers on the fuselage band, including some with the badge obviously stripped off for one reason or another.
(Incidentally Ex MPA . Flt. Cdt. Stirrup would have been on 97’s Grad Parade 🙂 )

Yes, The Last Reunion (ITV), Sunday 9th May 1965, Armchair Mystery Theatre play about a bomber crew’s supernatural get-together. 🙂

Amazing. How did you do that!

Was there not gliders before hand which could be flown with full control?

Im 99% sure there were.

Anyway, a question that will undoubtedly provoke some strong reaction – were the Wrights actually the first to achieve powered flight?

An awful lot of evidence suggests Clement Ader achieved manned powered flight in 1890.

I’m 99% sure you are right 🙂 – Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher etc. etc.

Actual first flight date claims (however you judge it) are a bit of a red herring,
if contribution to aviation is measured by subsequent impact .
It can be reasonably argued that the Wrights and indeed the U.S.A., contributed very little indeed to the practical implementation of early aviation. Furthermore the absence of much evidence of American designed and manufactured airframes, even less of aero engines, during the time of First World War and indeed beyond provides convincing support to the situation persisting for a couple of decades.

One of the most important achievements the wright Brothers gave to aviation was the modifcation of the propeller with a twist, so propellers as we know them were invented by the wright brothers

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The most cursory examination of the work of earlier pioneers such as Maxim ( one of whose propellers is in the Science museum in London) and Stringfellow (1848) will disprove that fallacy.
A lot of early work on aerofoil propellers was derived from hydrodynamic knowledge well established for ships’ propellers – where many of the basic charactersitics were identified.
That many pioneers chose for various reasons to ignore this work is another issue.

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1924 S-29A the First twin-engine airplane capable of flying on one engine and First all metal aircraft

Er , Shorts Silver Streak of 1920?

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1958 S-61 First helicopter with dipping sonar
Quite an achievement as the S-61 didn’t fly until March 1959.
In any event preceded, amongst others, by the Bell HSL-1

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1973 CH-53E First three-engine helicopter
Sud Aviation might disagree with their Frelon, first flown in June 1959

I won’t go on.

The RAFC used JP3 and JP5 in pilot flying training in the early 70’s . All were eventually in the ice cream wagon scheme which first started to appear about 1968. The TMk 4 was not used in Basic Pilot Training once the “5” was in.

Ejection seat testbed? I think I’ve seen that one before…

Is it possibly the “Badger” modified to test “Mystic” systems – before the latter aircraft’s high altitude interceptor requirement was cancelled?