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[Mitchell Holman[_5_]]

[Netko]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:30:57 +0100, Mitchell Holman wrote
(in article >):

Impressive though it is, I confess that the propellor was not the first thing
I noticed.

The Horatio Wallace multiplane, responsible for the UK's first manned,
powered flight (in 1907). Perhaps fortunately for British aeronautical
development, Wallace designed no more aircraft.

[Andrew Chaplin]

Netko > wrote in
:

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:30:57 +0100, Mitchell Holman wrote
> (in article >):
>
> Impressive though it is, I confess that the propellor was not the
> first thing I noticed.
>
> The Horatio Wallace multiplane, responsible for the UK's first manned,
> powered flight (in 1907). Perhaps fortunately for British
> aeronautical development, Wallace designed no more aircraft.[..]

.... having realised what profits could be made selling Venetian blinds.
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