![]() ![]() ![]() Newspapers of the day called these first aviators “birdmen” and made natural and poetic connections to the flight of birds, but in truth, these flimsy craft were but lumbering, staggering jalopies, more turkey than turkey vulture. Blunt, exposed and draggy, they had none of the predatory visual attributes that would one day come to define military and even civilian aircraft. These contraptions of bamboo poles, corded lashings, canvas panels, taut wires, brass fittings, thrashing propellers and wooden frameworks were fragile, open structured things that nonetheless captured the imaginations of men and women around the globe. In the beginning-the very beginning-aircraft designed and built by early aviators like the Wrights, Curtiss or Blériot had more in common with dragonflies or even scaffolding than eagles or sharks. ![]()
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