Wright brothers' witnesses. Recent discovery!

[XBe02Drvr]

"Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light...."

 

[pbehn]

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtCOprRDUm8

 

[stona]

Ooooh! I like the really bloodthirsty bits about impure blood filling furrows.

Cheers

Steve

 

[stona]

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;

Never sure if that's Welsh or your fingers got stuck on certain keys!

'(Ancient) Land of my Fathers'....another great tune.

Cheers

Steve

 

[pbehn]

Never sure if that's Welsh or your fingers got stuck on certain keys!

'(Ancient) Land of my Fathers'....another great tune.

Cheers

Steve

I worked in Germany with a Welsh guy called Llewellyn, he renamed himself "Smith" after a few hours of trying to tell people how to spell "Llewellyn".

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;

I'm sure it's truly majestic, but came through like gibberish on my smart?phone.
Cheers,
Wes

 

[pbehn]

I'm sure it's truly majestic, but came through like gibberish on my smart?phone.
Cheers,
Wes

If you like sport, set a date in your diary for Wales versus France in the Rugby six nations next year or google it when you have a decent sound system. In Wales there are only two worthwhile activities for men that is playing Rugby and singing. Their sporting supporters actually do sing not shout.

 

[Robert Porter]

My ex-wifes, Godmothers, mother is Welsh, hows that for a chain of relationship. And she spoke Welsh often at home with her husband. First time I heard it I rushed around to perform the Heimlich maneuver certain she was choking horribly on something. Oh that was a tad embarrassing. Never trust a language with a placename like
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

I mean really now, that just sounds wrong! Or you could go with this one:

Seriously? What language thinks that is cool and acceptable.

 

[pbehn]

And she spoke Welsh often at home with her husband.

Welsh looks strange when written down but if you hear people speaking it is already harmonic and musical. Welsh rugby fans not only sing but harmonise too, worth 6 points in a home game.

 

[simplex]

Letter written by Octave Chanute, on January 19, 1908. He believed that the Wrights controlled their machines by "shifting the weight"!!!

This belief of Chanute demonstrates he did not know too much about the construction of the Wrights' planes. His value as a witness is close to zero.

1908-01-19, Octave Chanute, "Letter to W. Wright", Chicago, January 19, 1908.

"... I was asked by a Chicago newspaper for my opinion of the Farman performance and I enclose the result. I suppose that the Voisin design was based upon a description by Fordyce of the photographs which you showed him of your machine in the air, but that he is no further ahead than you were in 1904. Danger, however, looms up from two communications in the last Aerophile (December). One from Goupil, which is weak, and one from a Mr. Lucien Doudin (don't know about him) who has tumbled to the idea that centrifugal force must be overcome and proposes four methods, while he recommends "shifting the weight." I have believed for the last 18 months that this is what you do, but forbore from asking questions. Let me know if I am wrong ?1 ..."

1908-01-27, Wilbur Wright, "Letter to Octave Chanute", Dayton, January 27, 1908

"... You are quite mistaken as to the matter of shifting of weight in our machines. We do not shift weight. We combine right and left wings of variable inclination with means of preventing movement about a vertical axis. ..."

 

[pbehn]

Simplex, no one cares about your selected quotes of the day, how is your Welsh singing?

 

[Marcel]

You can better ask him how his French is, pardon my French.

 

[Robert Porter]

Indeed, can he carry a tune in any language? Sounds more like a broken record.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Tsk, tsk, it's not nice to make fun of the handicapped!

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Gentlemen, I think this thread has run it's course.

Mr. Simplex, your welcome here has worn thin.