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« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2017, 07:50:57 »
Criteria being a place name on OS▸ (Ordnance Survey) maps.
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« Reply #18 on: July 31, 2017, 19:26:17 »
Quote from: Rob T on July 31, 2017, 09:27:38
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Quote from: ellendune on July 30, 2017, 22:44:03
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« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2017, 23:34:24 »
Something else I learned about my new home town today. Chard, Somerset saw the first ever powered aircraft flight.
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« Reply #20 on: August 01, 2017, 23:44:27 »
Quote from: bignosemac on August 01, 2017, 23:34:24
Something else I learned about my new home town today. Chard, Somerset saw the first ever powered aircraft flight.

Should that be "model aircraft"? Or maybe it was flown by a muppet?
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« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2017, 23:53:19 »
Still a first. Size isn't everything.  Tongue

[pedant]Besides which, a model is typically a smaller scale version of an original object. The aircraft flown in Chard was the original.[/pedant] 
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« Reply #22 on: August 02, 2017, 09:38:41 »
Quote from: bignosemac on August 01, 2017, 23:53:19
Still a first. Size isn't everything.  Tongue

[pedant]Besides which, a model is typically a smaller scale version of an original object. The aircraft flown in Chard was the original.[/pedant] 

I did think that, but "model" is also the usual term for a reduced-scale prototype of something bigger to be built later. As in this case, except it never was (built, that is).

Oh, and of course that should be "Muppet".
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« Reply #23 on: August 02, 2017, 18:57:27 »
Stringfellow flew these steam powered aircraft on the top floor of one of the lace mills in the town. They were also taken up to London to try them there.
The Chard ones were really small scale prototypes, using a version of a flash boiler. The museum in Chard has more information.
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