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Updates- <----- Click here for past Updates Update 01/27/2011:
This will mark the first update of 2011.
How time flies, this website began as an effort to promote my aviation endeavors well over 12 years ago. Today, I am working as much as I can (given life’s demands to the contrary) to keep this site going as a tribute to general aviation. My goals of being a source of General Aviation (GA) news, networking, and information still remain, just as they did many years ago when I first started this site – go to the way back machine to see how this site began LINK HERE!!
The site still needs a few good aviation editorialists, an aviation parts provider, an aircraft salesman, and a few experts in the field for content contributions. Consider this post as a “CALL TO ACTION” for any who wish contribute. We need you!!! So if you have time and are willing to contribute, please contact me at the following:
Kevin Hester www.FirstNFlight.com
Cell 541.829.3755
Alt 800.710.9144
Fax 888.391.5968
Click HERE to listen to old time radio. This treasure dates from 1909 to 1947 (Thousand’s of shows). How amazing the times must have been in the early part of the 20th century. Nicloli Tesla, Mark Twain, airships, and the birth of aviation. How times have changed.
Until the next update.. Take care,
FirstNFlight Staff
Above: The Wright Brothers flying at Fort Myer, France, and Italy in 1908-1909.
The video in this update includes the first motion pictures ever taken from an airplane and footage from 1938 Army Air Corps film. Additional images from the papers of Wilbur & Orville Wright, - Library of Congress. The music "Solace", dated 1909 by Scott Joplin, performed by Bob Montalto and recorded by Bruce Dalzell.
"In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks."
- — Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900.
