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What is the streamlining and aircraft body for the Trabajo Para Hacer En La Casa? The Wright flyer was used by Dan tattle..i think...wife to make clothes for their children.

1 First flying machine
2 Anonymous edits
3 Wrong Location
4 Picture

[edit] First flying machine

The controversy about the first flying machine already has its own article, and need not be attacked in this article. The part about 14-bis is already found in the article on the Wright brothers, so in the interest of avoiding redundancy, I have removed that section in this page. I think it would be appropriate to move the part about 14-bis into the article about the first flying machine. Willy Logan 21:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. However, a reference to the 'first flying machines' article would be a good idea to make it clear where such discussion should go. I've added it.Blimpguy 12:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anonymous edits

An anonymous editor added the following to the opening. It is clearly NPOV, and I have reverted it:

Much of it is vacuous. Even the 1905 Flyer has serious flaws, but it flew, really flew and the Wrights were there first, building a meticulous, systematic, thoughtful, creative, and persistent program to spectacular and unprecedented success.

The same editor also added this. It brings up some good points, but it needs reworking:

Every flight of the aircraft on December 14 and 17 -- under mildly insane conditions on the 17th -- ended in a forced landing (two on one flight when it bounced) or a crash. Also, turns were not demonstrated. In 1904, the Wrights found they needed redesign and new techniques to fly successfully, achieving these goals at the end of the 1904 program and even more decisively in 1905. The 1903 Flyer was a magnificent test vehicle, but its mythical status has obscured its proper place in the incredible developmental program leading to the Wrights mastery of flight in 1905.

Willy Logan 02:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)