ScienceCache #1: What goes up... Traditional Cache
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ScienceCache #1: What goes up...
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A quick and muggle-easy grab, provided you have stealth and style, and the very first in a series of ScienceCaches.
Heavier than air flight- at least as the acrobatic version goes- may very well have started right here.
Witness this typical San Francisco vista. Filmore hill was where aviator Lincoln Beachey started his ascent to flying fame- he, as Radiolab so aptly puts it- is the most famous flying ace you've never heard of.
He bombed down this hill on his bicycle- no brakes- in his youth. It's easy to see how the speed, the vertigo, and the non-existent safety net could have formed his future career.
Each time you see the Blue Angels- with jet engines, training, what have you- remember Mr. Beachy did it in a rickety bi-plane just 10 years after Kitty Hawk. He authored many of the current day aviation tricks as early as 1910, and was the most aviator of his time. Unfortunately.... he went before his time....at the bottom of this hill.
At the 1915 World's Fair, Mr. Beachy agreed to fly his new plane- a single winged plane- for the expedition. At upwards of 3,000 ft, both wings snapped, and he plunged to his death in front of a quarter-million spectators...at the bottom of Fillmore Hill.
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