Wright Flyer
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Sep 24, 2026
Matt StinemetzeGUEST
Yeah, kidding.
Matt StinemetzeGUEST
So that same day, some astronaut actually – They didn't ball up the Wright Flyer replica, but they landed in mud, I think, on national TV or something like that.
Matt StinemetzeGUEST
So historic day for multiple reasons.
Ryan GravesHOST
All right.
Tail DraggerHOST
Those broken composite tips had gone all the way around the world anyway.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Voyager hangs in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum now, right there in the Milestones of Flight Gallery, alongside the Wright Flyer and the Spirit of St. Louis.
Tail DraggerHOST
Right where it belongs.
Tail DraggerHOST
When you look at it, what strikes you is how fragile it looks, how impossibly graceful and impossibly delicate for something that crossed every ocean.
Tail DraggerHOST
No crew has done it smaller.
Tail DraggerHOST
Voyager still hangs in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, and she hangs near the Spirit of St. Louis and the Wright Flyer, which tells you everything about how history has judged what Dick Rutten and Janet Yeager did.
Tail DraggerHOST
But here's the thing that gets me when I sit with this story long enough.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Wright brothers gave us the airplane.
BrittanyHOST
In 1862, more than 3,600 men were killed in the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland.
BrittanyHOST
In 1908, Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the United States Army Signal Corps became the first person to die in the crash of a powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer, at Fort Myer, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.
BrittanyHOST
The pilot, Orville Wright, was seriously injured, but survived.
BrittanyHOST
In 1944, during World War II, Allied paratroopers launched Operation Market Garden, landing behind German lines in the Netherlands.
Rich RobertsHOST
That's one of the first battles there.
Rich RobertsHOST
And in 1908, Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the United States Army Signal Corps became the first person to die in a crash of a powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia, just outside Washington.
Rich RobertsHOST
The pilot, Oval Wright, was seriously injured by that, but survived.
Rich RobertsHOST
Demonstrating that to the United States Army.
Micah FrazierHOST
1849, Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery from Maryland's eastern shore to the safety of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Micah FrazierHOST
1908, the Wright Flyer crashed, killing passenger Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.
Micah FrazierHOST
The aircraft flown by Orville Wright resulted in the first airplane fatality.
Micah FrazierHOST
1920, the NFL is organized as the American Professional Football Association.
BridgetHOST
I know, seriously.
BridgetHOST
First airplane fatality occurs, the Wright Flyer in 1908.
BridgetHOST
Really? Yeah.
BridgetHOST
NFL is organized as the American Professional Football Association in 1920.
Josh GelernterHOST
But because the similar two-snorkel system was used on subsequent submarines designed by Robert Fulton 25 years later, I believe that's how the system worked.
Josh GelernterHOST
So the fact is, if you compare that to the Wright Flyer or to the very early automobiles, so much more survives from the turtle into modern submarines than you could say the first car or the first plane.
Josh GelernterHOST
It was really a remarkable invention.
Dan GelernterHOST
That's an interesting observation, but you might say because of the nature of the problem, it had to be a lot more thought out because anything that was was less fully implemented wouldn't have worked at all.
Kim SajetGUEST
And you, you know, whether you had friends on the Republican side, you had friends on the Democratic side, um, it was, you were there for the increase in diffusion of knowledge for the American people.
Kim SajetGUEST
So whether in fact it will be possible, um, because I, you know, I think this is gonna be a test for the American people because if the funding gets cut, the next thing is that the museums will have to close and that will be a whole other experience for everyone if they can't go and see their pandas and they can't go and see the ruby slippers or the Wright Flyer on their holiday to Washington DC.
David MarrHOST
Why do you think history matters so much to a man like Trump?
Kim SajetGUEST
Trump?It's, it's very interesting to me, and I, I think that it is partly his, um, showmanship.
Kim SajetGUEST
And you, you know, whether you had friends on the Republican side, you had friends on the Democratic side, um, it was, you were there for the increase in diffusion of knowledge for the American people.
Kim SajetGUEST
So, whether in fact it will be possible, um, because I, you know, I think this is gonna be a test for the American people because if the funding gets cut, the next thing is that the museums will have to close, and that will be a whole other experience for everyone if they can't go and see their pandas and they can't go and see the ruby slippers or the Wright Flyer on their holiday to Washington, DC.
David MarrHOST
The Smithsonian has this fascinating board because all three branches of government are represented on the board of the Smithsonian.
Kim SajetGUEST
Yes, they're called the Regents.
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