I was stumbling around the Internet a few days ago and I
came upon an article with this title, The
Most Disappointing Planes and Choppers in Aviation History. Of course, I read it top to bottom.
The article did have some strange looking Flying Machines.
Rather than see each one as a failure I saw each one as an Experiment. Without
mankind’s attempt to try and do something different we would still be pulling unstable carts full of our stuff that only had one wheel because no inventor had gone to
the trouble to dare to try and invent the 2nd, 3rd and 4th
wheels.
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To my utter shock and amazement I found that the people who
put together their list of what they considered to be Aviation Failures had included The
Wright Flyer!
In case I just went right by what you know about aviation
history, allow me to be more specific…
These IYI’s included the first airplane that was put
together by Wilbur and Orville Wright! They actually included the machine that
started everyone everywhere flying anywhere. Aghhhh!
Here is what these nut cases had to say about The Wright Flyer…
“Here is how the Smithsonian Institution describes the
Wright Flyer: “the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve
controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.” They did not mention that it
could not last over 59 seconds mid-air. On top of that, it was hard to manage
and covered only 852 feet. The aircraft only ever flew four times on the 17th
of December 1903. Pilots just gave up on it after that.”
The point should not be that it was Hard To Control or it Only
Flew 852 Feet or it Only Flew For 59 Seconds or it was Only Flown 4 Times and
then Orville and Wilbur “gave up on it”!
They did not give up on it! They went back to the
drawing board to put together the Apollo Moon Landing Program to get us to the
moon and back only 66 years later.
The shortcomings pointed out above were not the end of the
road. They were the shortcomings discovered on the beginning of the road.
Hey, IYI Guys, The Point is... It
Flew!
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Other “failures” on the IYI Most Disappointing Blunders of
Mankind List…
- The Model T Ford because it was not a 2020 Cadillac.
- The entire Apollo Program because it only went to the Moon and fell woefully short of making it to Mars.
- The Gutenberg Printing Press because it only printed one sheet at a time and could not hold a candle to the High Speed Printing Machine that puts out the New York Times.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: Have
you Googled “IYI”? If not, I’ll save you the trouble. It is the
abbreviation of, “Intellectual Yet
Idiot”.
4 comments:
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH is right. Why do do some people always look at the glass as being half full??
Bravo! The world is full of IYI’s (I tried googling it before I got to the end of the post and did not find it right away. Thanks for translating.)
I am participating in the writing of a research proposal to NASA and fighting that battle. It is a follow-on. We made a lot of progress, but we are faced with the task of justifying why we did not do more.
Well, this blog could have said a lot more about inventors failures. Myself, I see Edison a total failure. I mean really. a D.C. light bulb, moving pictures without color? What's with that?
Belated Happy Thanksgiving To You & Yours including those addressed herein or in my mind that are not included above: The reality of the blog could be used over & over is that in any Lists its creators have put in or kept out before they made the list. However to leave out the first plane that flew shows that these experts lack reasonable mental acumen. Without the flight what could have been put on the license plate? First in Flight-says it all. I rest my case w/o calling my client as am late to the black Friday sales.
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