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Wright Brothers Day 2025
It’s hard to believe it’s been 122 years since they spun those propellers at Kitty Hawk, NC, but today is Wright Brothers Day. If you have ever flown anywhere, you can thank these illustrious brothers from Ohio.
😌 Peace Mingled With An Excitement 😁
More than anything else, the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost. ~Orville Wright
I’ve been to the site where Wilbur and Orville conducted their experiments.
Even more than a century later, it’s genuinely exciting.
The brothers picked a perfect site for it because there’s an enormous hill and it is almost always super windy.
If you want to fly, you need some wind under your wings.
Let’s check the details.
First 🛩️ Flight
Wright Brothers First Flight, 1903
You don’t really equate 1903 with home videos, but there was a movie camera on site to record the event for us.
How freakin’ amazing is that?
The twentieth century was a whirlwind of technological and cultural upheaval.
Witness to the First Airplane Flight Talks About Seeing It in 1903: Wright Brothers “Wright Flyer”
Also amazing is that we have this interview from the 70s of an eyewitness to the event.
As we see from that video, Mr. Wood was also a racecar enthusiast.
Can you even imagine? When that guy was a kid, there was no such thing as a racecar or any other kind of car.
The UnXplained: The Wright’s Brothers Revolutionize Flying (Season 3) | History
I am also a product of the twentieth century.
When I was a kid, phones were affixed to walls or planted on desks.
Handsets were affixed to phones by a stretchy, coiled wire and if you called long distance it sounded like you were talking to someone on the moon.
Now, we’ve got a computer with ubiquitous access to the entirety of human knowledge in your pocket, and when you call someone on the far side of the planet, it’s like speaking to someone in the next room.
We went from having no damn idea who was making the phone ring to having Jetson’s style video calls with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
More importantly, we do know who’s calling and can dump them into voicemail if it’s not convenient to answer.
That’s technological advancement I can believe in.
🚨 Assumption 💡
If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance. ~Wilbur Wright
Commonly held wisdom may be common, but it’s not necessarily wisdom.
Bowing to the status quo doesn’t result in airplanes, computers and same-day delivery from Amazon.
So, remember that the next time the climate cultists yell that anthropogenic climate change is settled science. (Note: It isn’t.)
Holiday Season Serial Romance
Despite the cold I caught this weekend that is absolutely ⚰️💀 killing 💀⚰️ me, 💡🎄🌟 Goodness & Lights 🌟🎄💡 is still coming along quite nicely.
There’s a bit more character work to do so everyone can live happily ever after, but I’m pretty close to done and I’m nowhere near having to write tomorrow’s episode right up to the minute it’s supposed to release.
Even so, I think next year I’d like to actually hit my target of starting in July or August so it can all be done, edited, graphics created and posts scheduled well before 🦃 Thanksgiving Day 🥧.
Of course, that depends on my surviving this 🦠🤧 miserable cold 🤒🦠…
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That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for 🎼caroling🎶…