Shucks, we're just celebrating the invention of the tow plane over here in
the USA;^)

Frank Whiteley

"iPilot" wrote in message
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Interesting.

If one takes a sailplane and mounts an engine on it he gets a powered
sailplane. What makes me
thinking that Wrights plane was not a powered plane, but a motor glider
:-). A selflauncher to be
excact. Or a touring motor glider.


Kaido


"John Shelton" wrote in message
thlink.net...
Kill Devil Hills. Yeah. That's the spot where the Wright Brothers became
famous for inventing powered flight thereby relieving mankind from its
burden having to travel around in wheeled vehicles or confining their
flying
to short hops in gliders carrying no payloads. From that point on,
commercial transportation, special cargoes, and warfare would be
dominated
by the powered aircraft and those gliders that they strapped engines
onto
would sink into the toybox.