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

[KARL]

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 ?

[THECORBYLOON]

I think he meant to say they took over the car parks.

[naomi24]

Yep. There he is, thick as two short planks, President of the most powerful nation on earth – and successful at it too - and a multi-millionaire to boot – and here we have the real brains sitting on the AnswerBank day in and day out criticising him at every opportunity. Funny old world. :o)

[woofgang]

bless.....if he didn't exist we'd have to invent him.

[Zacs-Master]

1) the fact that he's POTUS only serves to reflect the dire state of politics in the US and the american populace's two fingers at teh establishment.
2)He's only successful business wise because of his father's legacy.
3) don't equate americas financial state with anything Trump has done directly. The WSJ recently published an article entitled 'Don’t Give Trump Too Much Credit for the Soaring Economy'. This is an interesting article if you can be bothered:
https://voxeu.org/article/stable-genius-estimating-trump-effect-us-economy#

It is a strange world where women support Trump considering the 'pussy grabbing' comment / his tweet that sexual assault in the military is simply what happens when men and women work together / his 1991 Esquire interview comment "You know, it doesn't really matter what [the media] write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass." / on abortion -
Matthews: Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no as a principle?
Trump: The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.
Matthews [MSNBC]: For the woman.
Trump: Yeah, there has to be some form.

There are others. Lots of others.

Strange indeed.

[woofgang]

doing the rounds on facebook http://i68.tinypic.com/2lkemc3.jpg

[jim360]

If only Trump would stop giving us so much ammo. Hard to keep track of what to criticise him for.

[Buenchico]

DT has blamed his error on a teleprompter fault:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/48885319

I can't help thinking though that his excuse would sound a bit better if he explained what he should have actually read off the teleprompter ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

// What are you talking about?// Nigh

oh dear, ---- dear Nigh - so innocent and keen to learn

Probably about the powered flight that is documented that occurred in Chard around 1844.
see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stringfellow

AND - I have read it and there is not a jot ( small bit ) about Brexit which will offend thee ..... there's service for another ABer !

[Peter Pedant]

jesus this thread is about poward flite innit?