Timeline for Why were the first airplanes "backwards"?
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| Jun 28, 2019 at 16:41 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | I was recently at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum and watched a video about this. They used a ribbon tied to the front of the aircraft as an early instrument. A sense of balance, like that required to ride a bicycle, was a large part of early flight! | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 14:30 | comment | added | MikeB | Its probably worth remembering that the majority of design work in those days was trial-and-error rather than mathematical analysis | |
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 5:55 | history | answered | Gil Delaney | CC BY-SA 4.0 |