Being roughly the 100th aniversary of the public recognition
of one of the first succesfull demonstrations of applied engineering to the problem of getting something heavier than
air to fly under its own power, some interesting links…

And of course, a dinner conversation…

Apparently, in 1910, a mad Romainian built a jet powered plane.
See here,
and here

more,
more.

Oh, and thats apparently the real reason planes fly. Bernoulli
principle only accounts for something like 15% of the lift.

Weird.