Orville Wright said today in 1903 (after making four flights of less than a minute each at Kitty Hawk Beach, Carolina) 'The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.'
Er ... needs work, Orv.
In other news ...
Sir Humphrey Davy was born today in 1778. He wasn't Sir Humphrey then, of course; that accolade came later, after he'd invented the safety lamp for miners and discovered sodium, calcium, barium, potassium, magnesium and strontium by passing electricity through molten metal compounds.
Nobody likes a smartarse, Humphrey!
