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The Wright Borthers Were At Least 125 Years From Being The First

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KARL | 11:50 Fri 05th Jul 2019 | History
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Having been interested in aviation from a very young age, I am truly aghast at the gap in my knowledge revealed yesterday by no less than the President of the United States of America (hand placed on my heart in respect as I type this). It turns out that in 1775 the British had an airport in Virginia:
https://youtu.be/3pTirPV4Onw?t=54

This proves that, in all likelihood, aviation was already well established throughout Europe and perhaps worldwide. I can find no reference to this in any of the sources at my disposal - can anyone please point me to reference material where I might educate myself, or is this perhaps classified US intelligence data ?
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Karl, I started watching that but it appears to be 10-plus minutes of John Cleese prattling about Brexit - and really, I can't be bothered with it.

What are you talking about?
Mmm. Airports in 1775. He's such a plonker.
trump made a slip of the tongue in a speech by saying 'airports', i have no idea what he intended to say

N, the link is to Trump prattling on about how America became independent. It's only about 40 seconds long.
a flight of fancy, obviously
In June of 1775 the Continental Congress created a unified Army out of the Revolutionary Forces encamped around Boston and New York, and named after the great George Washington, commander-in-chief. The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown,” Trump said.
Yeah he did. And then he said 'took over the Airports'.
sorry, failed to copy the next para...

Then, he went off the rails and seemingly mixed up the Revolutionary War with the War of 1812. “Our Army manned the air, it rammed (?) the ramparts, it took over airports, it did everything it had to do. And at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, had nothing but victory. When dawn came, the star-spangled banner waved defiant.”
according to Trump:

"In June of 1775, the Continental Congress created a unified army out of the revolutionary forces encamped around Boston and New York … Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory."

He mentions "air" twice, so it's more than just a slip of the tongue, he really does seem to be thinking of air defences, for whatever reason. Fort McHenry's a mistake too; it was involved in a later war against Britain, not the American Revolution.
Thanks all. A slip of the tongue. Big deal.
three slips of the tongue in one sentence. Unusually, this wasn't just a random tweet, Trump was working from a prepared script, so more than his tongue was involved.

If May (or Corbyn) in the course of a speech remarked on Julius Caesar's invasion in 1066, they'd be rightly laughed at for their ignorance of their country's history.
The president of the USA, on Independence day, displaying a very basic ignorance of chronology. Quite a big deal in my book.

As an aside the battle at Fort McHenry that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" took place during the War of 1812, not the American Revolution. Jeez they've far less history than us and they still get confused.
I dinae think the starry banner is the only thing spangled
Also:
The Continental Army wasn’t named after Washington

There's a great twitter feed running #RevolutionaryWarAirportStories
Another meal to be had. :o)
This has been mentioned before ! . Trump has a certified IQ of just above official 'Moron' level !!
His advisors LOVE it ! means they never have to explain anything , he would not understand it anyway !
Trump serves up a banquet every week.
He does indeed. You’d think the greedy would be bored with poking around for scraps by now - but no. They relish it. :o)
Relish. Ha. good one.
He needs a new information sauce.

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