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18:3418:34, 25 October 2024 diff hist +221 User:Reddog78/sandbox No edit summary
18:3018:30, 25 October 2024 diff hist +218 Wright Flyer III →Design and development: Page 489 of The Automotor Journal, 21st of April 1906, details the Wright III Flyer, and its distances covered between 26 September and 5 October 1905. "...All of the flights were made over a circular course of about three-fourths of a mile to the lap,..." current
17:1717:17, 25 October 2024 diff hist +183 Farman III →Operational history: Flight reference rescued again.
16:3416:34, 25 October 2024 diff hist +182 Farman III →Operational history: Rescued another Flight reference.
16:0816:08, 25 October 2024 diff hist −29 Farman III →Design and development
16:0616:06, 25 October 2024 diff hist +258 Farman III Replaced Flight reference with same reference and a url that works: "General view of the Farman biplane from behind, showing the hinged trailing edge of the upper tail-plane, which constitutes the principle new feature in the 1910 model".

21:0421:04, 24 October 2024 diff hist +914 User:Reddog78/sandbox No edit summary
21:0121:01, 24 October 2024 diff hist +188 Farman III →Operational history: Found the flight magazine references on the Internet Archives.
20:4120:41, 24 October 2024 diff hist +266 Farman III The link in the references did not work. Found the same flight magazine reference that works via the Internet Archive. The 16 October issue of Flight pages 641 - 644 gave details of the aircraft, a photo (on page 641), and drawings of the plane on pages 642, and 643.
20:0420:04, 24 October 2024 diff hist +300 User:Reddog78/sandbox No edit summary

16:2316:23, 23 October 2024 diff hist −2 Louis Blériot →Early aviation experiments: Flight magazine is/ at least was actually a journal, not a magazine.
16:0216:02, 23 October 2024 diff hist +388 User:Reddog78/sandbox No edit summary
15:5915:59, 23 October 2024 diff hist −3 Stanley Spooner No edit summary
15:5215:52, 23 October 2024 diff hist +435 Farman III →Differences from Maurice Farman biplane: Found the reference on wayback machine. But it was from the week before, not the 13th of February 1909, for the first one. "Maurice Farman Flies" Flight article headline comes from 13 February 1909, p. 92: "At almost his first attempt, Maurice Farman succeeded this week in making a flight of about 300 metres; the machine, however, was slightly damaged in the descent".
15:3215:32, 23 October 2024 diff hist +390 User:Reddog78/sandbox No edit summary
15:0215:02, 23 October 2024 diff hist −3 Stanley Spooner Flight magazine was actually a journal. It said so on the front cover. The page numbers carried on from issue to issue.
14:5214:52, 23 October 2024 diff hist +266 User:Reddog78/sandbox No edit summary

17:1517:15, 17 October 2024 diff hist +416 Louis Blériot →Early aviation experiments: The Flight article denotes the this flight took place on the 31st of October 1908 from Toury to Arteny. The distance was 14km. But he made a return flight from Arteny to Toury. From Early Aviators.com: "October 31---Blériot flew cross-country from Toury to Artenay 14 kils. He returned to Toury after one stop en route."
16:2016:20, 17 October 2024 diff hist +298 Louis Blériot →Early aviation experiments: "After visiting the 1900 Paris Exhibition Universelle..Bleriot saw Clement Ader demonstrate his Avion III aircraft: Bleriot's interest in aviation matters was firmly established."