Sir George Cayley Replica Test Flights

[@voodad]

It's a while since I saw this footage! 👍Thanks for posting, Pat. 🙂

[@graemehenderson1743]

As soon as the tow stops it drops from the sky. It's a kite.

[@benigabor8425]

I just flops down gently like a parachute when it stalls, which makes it very safe to fly.

[@graemehenderson1743]

It shows that it is a kite. Without the tension on the string it just drops from the sky.

[@Mosesranthemetresinarcseconds]

@@graemehenderson1743 Cayley himself called it a controllable parachute And ‘it was just a kite’……compared to what other machines at the same time in history that didn’t need to be pulled or propelled into the air?

[@charlesbarbour2331]

How did the original fly without someone drawing it along?

[@uprightpat]

Hi Charles, it was launched across a valley with just a row at the launch. Look on Google maps here www.google.com/maps/place/54.230202,+-0.555031/@54.2294396,-0.5543639,16z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d54.230202!4d-0.5550308

[@graemehenderson1743]

It didn't, it was towed into the air and when the tow stopped it just dropped like any kite does.

[@Mosesranthemetresinarcseconds]

Cayley himself essentially called it a ‘manned controllable parachute’…..he never used the term glider to describe it…..and I believe the details as to how it was originally flown and by whom are sketchy to say the least

[@graemehenderson1743]

@@Mosesranthemetresinarcseconds Well it certainly wasn't a glider, nor an aeroplane. As for who went up in it, nobody ever "flew" it, we can be sure that Caylye lacked the testicles to try.

[@Mosesranthemetresinarcseconds]

@@graemehenderson1743 that’s why he never called it a glider or a aeroplane and you have no clue if anybody was ever onboard when it was airborne….just as nobody else does because we weren’t there

[@graemehenderson1743]

What amazes me is that people talk about Cayley as if he succeeded, he didn't. He didn't even have the balls to get in his kite himself. This is just the English trying to make themselves look important.

[@Mosesranthemetresinarcseconds]

So you think building this when he did wasn’t important in the history of aviation and was a failure??? 😂😂😂 Then why is it two American men (not British) by the names of Orville and Wilbur Wright called him the ‘Father of flight’ ????? And these two fellows apparently knew a thing or two about flying machines!!!

[@graemehenderson1743]

@@Mosesranthemetresinarcseconds I don't take the word of the Wright Brothers seriously, especially when it comes to history, given the massively inflated claims they made. And unless you can show that Cayley influenced Lilienthal then I see nothing of any relevance that has come from his cowardly experiments.

[@Mosesranthemetresinarcseconds]

@@graemehenderson1743 I don’t think anybody in this thread is taking anything you say seriously so it’s all good! 👍

[@graemehenderson1743]

@@Mosesranthemetresinarcseconds You should have stopped with: "I don’t think". Your problem is that you're a sheep, following the mob and incapable of thinking for yourself. I am not interested in what you say, just in insuring that the truth is here to counter your lie.

[@whitewittock]

cayley should have tethered to a steam train