Fact of the Day: The word Aeroplane comes from Orville Wright's original O shaped plane design that flew in the air (Aer is ancient Greek for Air) back in 1783. The O was dropped from the word in 1803 when planes were no longer O shaped
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Didn't see this in Wikipedia.
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It was a military secret that's why
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Any day that you learn something is not a day wasted
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Design was later adopted for space stations most famously the 2001 Space Odessey..
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It's cool that they built a plane that resembles the shape of the Earth.
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How do you mean? The Earth is flat
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Incidentally this Orville was named after him in an effort to make him fly, which he famously wished he could, but he couldn’t. Keith Harris is also the Grandson of “Bomber”Harris, hence him wearing his Grandads uniform……pic.twitter.com/uveWJzJqwI
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Sorry should’ve said Keith Harris is the one on the right.
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