{"id":173,"date":"2020-12-23T12:14:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/?p=173"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:49:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T08:49:22","slug":"last-wrights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Last Wright&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know why I find this so astonishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orville-wrights-final-flight.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orville-wrights-final-flight.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orville-wrights-final-flight-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>April 26th 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I guess I ran the whole plane for a minute but I let the machine take care of itself,&#8221;<\/em> Wright said of the experience. <em>&#8220;I always said airplanes would fly themselves if you left them alone.&#8221;<\/em> <br> Wright also pointed out that the Constellation\u2019s 123-foot wingspan was longer than the distance of his first flight, which had travelled just 120 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orville died January 30th 1948 aged 76. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/640px-Duxford_Air_Festival_2017_-_mig1_34842016051.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/640px-Duxford_Air_Festival_2017_-_mig1_34842016051.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/640px-Duxford_Air_Festival_2017_-_mig1_34842016051-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>By wallycacsabre &#8211; mig1, CC BY 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=59596165<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I find it astonishing that he would have experienced the first powered flight and seen in his lifetime such dramatic developments.  Prototypes like the MiG-15 and the B-47 flew in the month before his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really know why I find this so astonishing. &#8220;I guess I ran the whole plane for a minute but I let the machine take care of itself,&#8221; Wright said of the experience. &#8220;I always said airplanes would fly themselves if you left them alone.&#8221; Wright also pointed out that the Constellation\u2019s 123-foot wingspan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/?p=173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last Wright&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcross.co.uk\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}