Happy 574th Birthday DaVinci. You would've loved Sky. 🎨🖌️🍂
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Happy 574th Birthday DaVinci. You would've loved Sky. 🎨🖌️🍂
did some more of this to fulfill my lil vision... then i thought of the parallel i could draw between leafpool's care by grooming ashfur's body vs holly when she was a kit and my mind went woahwoagh YAY
song is flying machine by boys go to jupiter
Soaring into history 🛩️Wilbur and Orville Wright
Soaring into history on December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved the first successful flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their revolutionary Wright Flyer soared for just 12 seconds on its maiden voyage.
The Wright brothers' invention was officially recognized when they were granted U.S. Patent No. 821,393 on May 22, 1906, for their "Flying Machine."
This patent, preserved in the records of the National Archives, laid the foundation for their innovative three-axis control system, which allowed a pilot to steer the aircraft effectively. This key innovation remains a fundamental principle in aviation to this day.
The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.
Blas Gallego's 1988 cover for Kiteworld, by Keith Roberts
The rocket crossbow is the invention of Celianthril, son of Galianthril, a dwarf who gazed up at the starry sky and dreamed of plucking the jewels from the celestial vault. He constructed an enormous arbalest and a hollow arrow filled with seats. Local villagers helped launch him high into the sky where he almost disappeared from view, before plummeting back to earth, rather hard, several hundred leagues from where he began.
Seeing the impact of the mighty arrow, an orc shaman was inspired to build his own version to assault the famed city of Bahanjur-Kazbam with 96 of his warriors packed tightly inside. The inhabitants of the city watched the projectile soar overhead, crashing into a mountain then disappearing into a lake.
(from an article about various flying machines in Casus Belli Special Issue 2: Laelith, 1990)
Memory
"I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly."
Leonardo da Vinci ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please enjoy this fill for a really old IPAT prompt: Memory. Sorry, no limerick this time, because I spent so many hours on putting together this little diorama for a HAPPY MEMORY from our Ineffables' shared history.
Please feel free to take this picture as a prompt to write your own fanfiction or create some fanart! 😘
For more ramblings and credits...
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Vintage flying machines.
Photograph of Lawrence Hargrave kneeling beside box kite at Woollahra Point
Photograph of Lawrence Hargrave standing beside a cellular kite on a table at Woollahra Point
Photograph of a cellular kite and kite winder at Woollahra Point from the William Hudson Shaw Archive
Photograph of Lawrence Hargrave flying a cellular kite at Woollahra Point