Topic awaiting preservation: Americans, sometimes they are just odious (Page 1 of 1)

Forget it. I just love Americans...

[This message has been edited by viol (edited 08-18-2003).]

You've been in kind of a bad mood lately, Viol. Is something up?

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Sorry, we were raised that way.

All right.

Let's have a discussion about American cheese, then ...

The topic would be about who was the first one to fly a heavier-than-air airplane.
In Brazil, I was taught, since my first day at school, that the Brazilian Santos Dumont was the first. But the Americans say that brothers Wrong, sorry, Wright, did it first, althought so secretly that no one hardly ever saw.
And now Microsoft releases Flight Sim 2004, a century of flight, and etc...
This is a matter that we Brazilian get angry. Americans use their power to get anything they want.
Sorry.
http://www.thefirsttofly.hpg.ig.com.br/pioneer2.htm http://www.firstflight.org/shrine/santos_dumont.cfm http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/History%20of%20Airplane/santos_dumont.htm

Close this topic, please, I am not going to post a message in it anymore. Thanks.

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... the first one to fly a heavier-than-air airplane.

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As opposed to a lighter-than-air airplane?

And did you bother to read that last link of yours? They made several public flights.

But I forget, you're not posting anymore for reasons totally lost on me.

well, for once, I'll cater to your whim and close this topic.
not that such a thing shouldn't go into the 'other silliness' section
anway...