DAVE MORLEY GIVES YOU THE CAR ADVICE YOU NEED – AND MAYBE A BIT ABOUT LIFE AS WELL
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I’ve just been watching some old footage of some of the earliest attempts to make a flying machine. The video was a mash-up of old silent newsreel and home movie stuff, but it made me realise that it’s so easy to get caught up in what you believe to be the facts, that you sometimes turn your back on reality.
The little film clips I watched did include a huge variety of cunning ideas when it came to making something heavier than air take to the skies. Techniques such as having a series of revolving wings (a bit like a helicopter, I guess). But rather than powering the wings with a single, central engine, the bloke responsible added an individual engine and propeller, sideways on each wing. Ultimately, he wound up with four little aeroplanes flying in a circle. Well, except for the flying bit.
steel plate to one’s back (along with a pair of wings) pulling on a set of ice skates and lighting the wick, while on a frozen lake. Combine that sort of bravado with early combustion engines and highly flammable materials such as timber and fabric and it’s no wonder
