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From the undoubted providence of the Daily Mail – WW1 Flying Schools


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#1 Simon Birch

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 04:14 PM

http://www.dailymail...on-schools.html

Well some pictures if nothing else.

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Posted 29 June 2012 - 04:56 AM

Nice photos there - I like the two showing the Bleriot fuselage next to the packing crate and horse-drawn wagon it was delivered on

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Posted 29 June 2012 - 10:46 AM

View PostRobL, on 29 June 2012 - 04:56 AM, said:

Nice photos there - I like the two showing the Bleriot fuselage next to the packing crate and horse-drawn wagon it was delivered on
I think the horse drawn wagon is loaded with the crate containing the wings. The tail of the fuselage would probably be hooked on to the tail of the cart for the trip from the station (at which both the fuselage and wings had been unloaded from the train that delivered them.

I note from one of the captions that the DM thinks the first powered flight took place in 1906!

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 08:09 PM

"I note from one of the captions that the DM thinks the first powered flight took place in 1906!"

Hence undoubted providence!!

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 11:03 PM

View PostSimon Birch, on 30 June 2012 - 08:09 PM, said:

"I note from one of the captions that the DM thinks the first powered flight took place in 1906!"

Hence undoubted providence!!

Don't you mean provenance? Not the will of the Almighty (although the DM might argue with that).