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'If you’re trying to picture the first powered aircraft in England, though, it’s a very different story, because it looks like a mobile display for a Venetian blinds salesman. '
'Where America had the Wright Brothers and their powered flight in 1903, our British pals celebrate Horatio Phillips and his imaginatively-named Flying Machine of 1907. '
'A lot of Phillip’s research was conducting in a novel steam-based wind tunnel that used steam injection instead of just blown air. '
'Phillip’s aircraft actually had a brains-boggling 200 wings (a ducentiplane, if you’re into that)—Phillips called these airfoils “sustainers,” and technically the 1907 machine had four banks of 50 wings each. '
'It’s general look sort of makes inherent sense when we think about how aviation developed. '
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