10-03-2014, 05:54 PM
(09-23-2014, 10:28 AM)ascension scout Wrote: Anyhoo, I would be so very pleased to hear your thoughts and ideas on this subject!
We'll just see about that!
Some passing almost random offerings, as I cruise by, bipedally biopropelled:Bystander at Kitty Hawk to Orville and Wilbur Wright, circa 1903:
"Aw, it's all the bunk, you guys-- she'll never git off th' ground!"
http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/orville/
General context of perhaps unsuspected difficulties in cultural diffusion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNco1gqaSDw
Why re-invent the wheel?
http://www.ufohowto.com/index2.htm
The technological road less-travelled:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV7ZTwqC8ZI
More seriously, you might find this of interest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggsuHRnyn0Q (start at 5:28, say)
Howard Menger was a very upstanding and wide-awake gent, who was of the same generation as Ralph Ring, and interested in very similar realities. He lived in my neck of the woods, and is still known and respected by the older ones in the area.
Incidentally, you might enjoy this on general principles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0DT40csVo
Remember, when you get aloft, the aviator's first rule: Blue Side Up. Cheers!