Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

[Pops1967GTX]

This is Markie Post , holding a post

 

[Photon440]

The first fatal plane crash occurred on September 17, 1908, and it involved the Wright brothers. A Wright Flyer crashed during a military demonstration flight at Fort Myer, Virginia. The right propeller of the plane came in contact with a guy wire, causing the plane to crash from an altitude of somewhere around 65 feet. The crash killed the passenger, U.S. Army Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge, and seriously injured the pilot, Orville Wright. Selfridge became the first person to die in an airplane crash and the first active-duty member of the U.S. military to die in an airplane crash while on duty. He was also the first Army officer to solo in a powered aircraft. Wright suffered a broken leg, several broken ribs, and an injured hip. He spent seven weeks in the Army hospital...

The Wright brothers, by the way, had promised their father that they would never fly an airplane at the same time for fear that they would both die in the same crash. Incidentally, neither died in a plane crash. Wilbur died in 1912 at age 45 from typhoid fever, and Wilbur died in 1948 at 76 from a heart attack...

I think you meant that it was Orville who died in 1948.
Here he is, sitting in the cockpit of a Lockheed Constellation in 1944.

 

[kiwigtx]

I think you meant that it was Orville who died in 1948.
Here he is, sitting in the cockpit of a Lockheed Constellation in 1944.
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...when Wikipedia lets you down.....

 

[33 IMP]

First Briton to die in a plane crash was Charles Rolls..... of Rolls Royce.

 

[DeltaV]

The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow was originally intended to be called Rolls-Royce Silver Mist, but was replaced with Silver Shadow at the last minute due to Mist meaning "manure" or "crap" in German.