what year was the first flight of this well known air plain?

1903, Wright Brothers...Kitty Hawk?

I was under the impression that the Kitty Hawk flight was lying down....?

I know the plane and the dates but was this the first passenger flight or the new flight record?

I cast my vote for March 10th 1909, based on the whiteness of the background and that it looks like the great white north!

Hmmm, you may be right. I saw a model of one where the pilot layed down rather than sitting.

Oh, and there are no whitey's in there. Those are indians on horseback racing down the hills

1909 is correct, but it was feb 23rd. ( the silver dart) gj

can you name this object?

It looks like an apple peeler.

nope

Ribbon winder?

not even close

But surely a peeler of some sort. Could one NOT use it to peel an apple?

I'll guess, a baseball making machine... ya know, wrap that rawhide on there...

Holy Crap!!!!! It's an apple UN-peeler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmmmm....how about a hand tool for making wooden balls...like Croquette balls? (sp?)

A larger version of the picture might help as well...

Spring loaded shaver implement not depth limited. So, no on the uniform ballz. Also, it looks like prongs stuck into stuff being shaped - so not wood - but something soft - like fruit or veggie.

Scrotum shaver?

ill give it up hehe. it was the first device used to wrap cricket balls

Who the heck is cricket and what was his issue?

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Guess.....

Anti tank Mine?

Frisbee?

A platter for stir frying wrapped cricket ballz.

Edit: Check the kitchen aisle at Ikea right next to the napkin rings.

ah....no


WINNER!!


Must have been a short sale, so, where do you display yours?

Ohhhhh....Im really not certain I want to hear about where Durachko displays his cricket balls....

Okay. Im going back to the apple peeler...I just looked at the string of responses and it appears that he is looking for some qualifier like "Apple Peeler/Corer" or "Late 1800's Apple Corer" or even "Apple Parer"
Anything like that, I am told, qualifies for flogging.

I call.

SJ

Hunh? He really did say it was a cricket ball doo-hickey.

Wah-choo-talkin'-bout-Sammy???

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Since we seem to be in Classic Aviation mode...can anyone tell me what this is a picture of?


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civil war recon? (at least that's what I see...)

mexican border surveillance, drug trafficking?...as if they cared, right?

a hot air balloon hahah ?

did i win a prize?

It looks like an apple peeler to me.

No evan, not til you fess up on the fruit peeler.

It is a military application, but you might want to look closer at the picture.

World's largest whoopee cushion?

Close analysis of the picture reveals that this is in fact the first recorded case of air sickness.

The man on the right is puking into a bag (or perhaps using a pair of binoculars).

The first aerial traffic jam observation platform.

What I find more curious is thinking about the photographer taking the shot

Dazz is quite close. Observation is the key word here. I will give you all a hint. It was taken during WWI. The photographer was in another balloon.

They were over the female recruit roofless outdoor shower stalls?

If that translates to "troop movement" then you are getting closer...

I shudder to think what you mean by "movement".

Troop movements....now WHY would you want to watch troop movements? Wouldnt that give you some kind of advantage?

First AWACS?

Getting closer

O fer cripes sake! It's gotta be simple aerial reconnaissance to make military terrain maps. That's my serious guess.

Oh SOOOOO close

Is it an aerial platform from which WWI soldiers could drop apple peels onto the heads of their enemy?

Well that part is right!

It's not one of those funky bomb-dropping balloons, is it?
I didn't see any way the bottom could open up to drop the bomb.

Is it a real-time combat control platform? Do they have parachutes if so?

Okay, time to give it up.

This is a picture of the first application of modern troop movement monitoring. It first started in WW1. The balloon was anchored to the ground to keep it stable, but it also housed a telegraph line with which they sent messages to the surface about the observations they made and possible advantages that could be had.

Okay...somebody wanna donate another fun one?

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Okay...here is an easy one...

What do Vermonters call this?

Supper?

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A hood ornament.