Mark

I've never read so much cr*p in all my life.

 

This is Sam Cody who chucked the aerodynamically unstable Sitting Bull off Beachy Head.  See Cody pointing out the flight path but problems with the headdress feather mountings caused a fatal crash.

 

Cody returned to the USA and resumed his show career.

#2 This was from where the WW1expression "Flapper" came

Re 2 

And whilst we’re on the subject of Yanks visiting their mother country, here’s a tale about one of them, who actually beat his ex compatriots to powered flight, his name? Hiram Maxim. Hiram wanted to be one of God’s chosen people and so took British citizenship, in fact, we knighted him�? Arise Sir Hiram. In 1894, ten years before those Yankee interlopers, the Wrights, took off, our Hiram flew his monster creation 1,924ft, at 42 mph in Bexley London. The monster had a 104ft wingspan and was powered by steam. This amazing feat was witnessed by no less a personage than the Prince of Wales, Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and HG Wells, who was inspired to write ‘Arganauts of the air�?and his Martian flying machine, in war of the worlds, was a direct copy. Now here’s the fly in the ointment. The Wright flight was a personally controlled flight, whereas the Maxim flight was a tethered flight, but there is no denying, Hiram was the first to fly a powered, heavier than air, craft.

Yeah, you claimed him for the machine gun too. 

 

T-Dog

Too right Tom, that's why we Knighted the lad, for giving us the tools to slaughter lots of natives.

Flash, I don't leave, apologize & then come back.  Leave, apologize & then come back, leave, apologize & then come back.  I let others do that.  I  stay here like a festering boil.

 

T-Dog

#9

 

Like the time I spend a week working on the WW2 site at management request generating 500 posts and you 4 times accuse me of leaving site. My continuous membership was still there.

 

Because all you are is a cheap tawdry liar in additon to a festering boil.

 

With the unpleasantness you have created and your total lack of any constructive contribution to this site why don't you just punch out a standard post "Look! I'm clever little lying Tommy I hate the British trust me!"

 

Or better still go but you haven't another site to go to