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  • Benoist Commemorative Flight - A Race Against Time

    Another Kermit Weeks project, or a fiasco waiting to happen? He and his crew are attempting to build from scratch, a precise reproduction of the Benoist air-boat that made the first commercial flight on January 1, 1914 from St. Petersburg to Tampa, FL. He plans to fly the replica on the 100 year anniversary, January 1, 2014. From the looks of it, they have a lot to do yet and I have serious doubts about their ability to pull it off. Not the flying, but actually getting it built in time.


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    Re: Benoist Commemorative Flight - A Race Against Time

    Not sure how they got there, or "who" wrote them, but the "closed captions" that run across the bottom of the screen are hilarious!
    Wayne Sagar
    "Pusher of Electrons"

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      Re: Benoist Commemorative Flight - A Race Against Time

      The captions are bizarre! :-)

      So other then the motor seems like a very reasonable project to me, I think hull design has improved but should be a fine flyer!

      Can't wait to see it in the air!

      Spacegrrrl

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        Re: Benoist Commemorative Flight - A Race Against Time

        Saw these updates on the Benoist Project on the FoF Benoist2014.com blog. Nice to see the reports and the progress.

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        Interesting. Check them out.

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          Re: Benoist Commemorative Flight - A Race Against Time

          There's a video on the planes prop too. Can't wait to see some video on it coming together.

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