As Wilbur tested the new machine gun mount on his biplane, it occurred to him that it would make an excellent rowcropping agricultural tool, battling both potato bugs and groundhogs.
This picture was taken while I was flipping through a book at an antique market, so I don't know what's actually going on.
Google Lens tells me this is a Blériot XI- the first plane across the English Channel, it it is obviously not.
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The Wright brothers were frauds.
My google lens says it's a Henri Farman HF.27, which seems to be backed up by a few websites out there.
My Google lens says it's a Voisin Type III, which goes to show...
My research indicates that it’s possibly the result of crossing a tin bathtub with a hay elevator
Pilot to gunner - "You Idiot! You shot our tail off !"
Oh, this is a pusher aeroplane. Never mind.
Jack from Illinois
That must've been a horrible thing to land, due to the wheel layout. D.
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