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Aviation Education #7 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/26/2010
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


After creating the evil SLI 137/2.41 cache, I thought I'd lighten up a bit on the difficulty with an educational series.

Cache is not at posted coordinates, as usual.

Early aviation pioneers and their birthdays:

Steam powered design flew nearly 3/4 mile in 1896.(a=month)
The brother who won the coin toss.(b=month)
Was the pilot of the aircraft that resulting in first airplane crash fatality.(c=month)
This inventor/painter never had any successful designs, but his drawings inspired many pioneers years later.(d=day-7)
He died the day after his last flight in 1896, but he will go down in history as the king.(e=last digit of year-2)
Invented the strut-wire braced wing and was considered a brilliant civil engineer.(f=day-11)
Competed in the worlds first air meet and won first in the overall speed event.(g=last digit of year-5)
Designed and flew his craft in 1939. The first viable version in the U.S.(h=month-2)

The cache is at N33 4g.fab W118 0h.cde

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Congrats to mmarmont for the FTF!

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