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I just wondered if you knew there was a detailed section on the MBB in Bradshaw's guide here Richerman (talk) 17:27, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 23:53, 21 December 2013 (UTC) |
I infer from your user page that your interest in this page is due to its Manchester connection, rather than a particular interest in aviation. The edits I made to the article were because the information is clearly wrong. Paulhan's first aircraft is fairly notable because it was probably the first flight use of the Gnome engine, and it was indisputably a Voisin. He flew it until the autumn of 1909, most notably at the Reims Grande Semaine d'Aviation. [1]. L'Aérophile [2] (Au Camp du Chalons) reports him taking delivery of a Farman & making taxying trials to familiarise himelf with the controls, which would be surprising if he had already flown one. I can't find any reference to his winning the Voisin airframe & do not have access at the moment to the book that I think I read it in, Taking Flight by Richard P. Hallion, but I really would not take anything I read in the cited book very seriously. It is essentially a picture book whose author is described on the back cover as an 'aviation enthusiast' and contains some other rather dubious statements.
As fot the other edits, OK. Grahame-White did (briefly) have a flight school at Pau as the DNB says: it's still (given its marginality to his career: as I said, there seem to be no contemporary mentions) not really appropriate in a potted biog. On the subject of which, I trimmed these because, as mentioned in the edit summary, they simply seemed too long. Is it, for instance, necessary to give all Paulhans Christian names?. There are full biogs of both men and imo the excessive length just slows the narrative . TheLongTone ( talk) 20:21, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
[3] Is it humanly possible to keep any WP article up to spec without standing guard over it? Without being accused of ownership? Eric Corbett 19:06, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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I just wondered if you knew there was a detailed section on the MBB in Bradshaw's guide here Richerman (talk) 17:27, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
"There is a content dispute at Pink Floyd; your input there would be appreciated." GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:46, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:26, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
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Happy Holidays | |
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 23:53, 21 December 2013 (UTC) |
I infer from your user page that your interest in this page is due to its Manchester connection, rather than a particular interest in aviation. The edits I made to the article were because the information is clearly wrong. Paulhan's first aircraft is fairly notable because it was probably the first flight use of the Gnome engine, and it was indisputably a Voisin. He flew it until the autumn of 1909, most notably at the Reims Grande Semaine d'Aviation. [1]. L'Aérophile [2] (Au Camp du Chalons) reports him taking delivery of a Farman & making taxying trials to familiarise himelf with the controls, which would be surprising if he had already flown one. I can't find any reference to his winning the Voisin airframe & do not have access at the moment to the book that I think I read it in, Taking Flight by Richard P. Hallion, but I really would not take anything I read in the cited book very seriously. It is essentially a picture book whose author is described on the back cover as an 'aviation enthusiast' and contains some other rather dubious statements.
As fot the other edits, OK. Grahame-White did (briefly) have a flight school at Pau as the DNB says: it's still (given its marginality to his career: as I said, there seem to be no contemporary mentions) not really appropriate in a potted biog. On the subject of which, I trimmed these because, as mentioned in the edit summary, they simply seemed too long. Is it, for instance, necessary to give all Paulhans Christian names?. There are full biogs of both men and imo the excessive length just slows the narrative . TheLongTone ( talk) 20:21, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
[3] Is it humanly possible to keep any WP article up to spec without standing guard over it? Without being accused of ownership? Eric Corbett 19:06, 31 December 2013 (UTC)