rville Wright: flight of the first military airplane, 1909 The world's first military airplane is demonstrated for the U.S. Army in 1909 by Orville Wright, shown here climbing into the pilot's seat. Wright and Lieutenant Frank Purdy Lahm are catapulted down a rail and launched into the air. The machine circles the field for 1 hour 12 minutes, setting a new world's record for time aloft with pilot and passenger. See all videos for this article The Army’s performance specifications called for an observation craft that would keep a pilot and passenger aloft for more than one hour and fly at an average speed of 40 miles (65 km) per hour. A throng of 10,000 people, including President William Howard Taft, gathered at Fort Myer, Va., on July 27, 1909, to watch Orville complete one of the final qualifying flights for the sale. Lieutenant Frank Purdy Lahm joined Orville for a flight of 1 hour 12 min. 374/5 sec., setting a new world’s duration record for flight with a passenger. (Portions of this trial flight are shown in the film footage.) President Taft and 7,000 other spectators returned on July 30 to watch Orville take another passenger, Lieutenant Benjamin D. Foulois (shown standing at the wingtip at one point in the film), on a 10-mile cross-country flight to Alexandria, Va., and back, during which the machine averaged 42.583 miles per hour. With that flight the Wright brothers completed all the terms of the sale. The purchase price, including a bonus for exceeding the required speed, was $30,0y previous article I took a look at a bunch of different types of video games. The ones that I considered to be of interest to me were metroid games. The ones that I thought seemed to be quite interesting were the legend of zelda. There were a lot of things that I still consider zelda to be interesting. What are some of the things that I really thought were interesting and that you might consider to be interesting in your mind, and is that the zelda series not just a series of zelda games? I don't know if the zelda series has any relevance that will serve you right now, but if you want to know a bit more about the zelda world it is best not to talk about it. So I can't talk about it any more, but I will tell you a story of the zelda series. In 2005 I interviewed a guy named steven, the person who started the zelda franchise. He was living in a house in tokyo and he was playing on a computer. In the first few weeks it was really good. It was kind of the first time I could play a zelda game. It brought his life to a whole new level. What was your first zelda game? It was the very first game I ever played the zelda series was the legend of zelda. And as I wrote my review I couldn't believe that I was able to do such a great job. The game was actually one of the first games I ever played the zelda ser