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awZQy TIL that it was on September 7, 1905 that the first ever bird strike by an airplane was reported, and by none other than Wilbur Wright, an aviation pioneer, as recorded in his diary. This incident occurred when his aircraft hit a bird over Bread's cornfield near Dayton, Ohio.
MeNPB TIL that Orville Wright, the younger of the two Wright Brothers, expressed sadness about the death and destruction brought about by the bombers of World War 2, stating “I once thought the aeroplane would end wars. I now wonder whether the aeroplane and the atomic bomb can do it.”
aw7Py TIL in 1916 Albert Einstein wrote an article proposing a more efficient shape for wings. The plane built with his wings barely left the ground.