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A metal sculpture near the A1 road depicting Ferguson's first flight. In the 1900s the young Harry Ferguson became fascinated with the newly emerging technology of powered human flight and particularly with the exploits of the Wright brothers, the American aviation pioneers who made the first plane flight in 1903 in North Carolina, USA.
Harry Ferguson started as an Irish mechanic and while working with his brother Joe became interested in aircraft. [1] Ferguson first flew his monoplane on 31 December 1909, the first flight of an Irish heavier-than-air craft. [1]
August – First passenger flight in Ulster: Harry Ferguson pilots Miss Rita Marr. [22] 6 September – Blanche Stuart Scott makes the first solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States subsequently recognized by the Early Birds of Aviation.
Who invented the first successful airplane depends on how people define an aircraft, Paone said. Wilbur and Orville Wright, colloquially known as the Wright Brothers, are credited with flying the ...
Harry Ferguson Research Limited was a British company founded by Harry Ferguson who was mostly known as "the father of the modern farm tractor". He was also a pioneer aviator, becoming one of the first to build and fly his own aeroplane in Ireland, and also went on to develop four-wheel drive systems for cars including pioneering their use in Formula One racing cars.
English: A recently-erected sculpture, near the flyover J2358 : Flyover, Hillsborough (6) at the southern end of the Hillsborough bypass, commemorating Harry Ferguson (1884/1960) LinkExternal link an engineer and pioneer aviator, who was born at Growell between Hillsborough and Dromore. The following is a part-quotation from a press release ...
John Ferguson, CEO of a remote aircraft system company in Kansas, claimed in a drawn-out TikTok video on Saturday that the drones are attempting to “smell” either a gas leak, “radioactive ...
The Ferguson Belfast Black Prototype tractor was put on display at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra on the 22nd August, 2024. This tractor was the world's first Ferguson System tractor. It had previously been on display at the Science Museum in London. Completed at Harry Ferguson's workshop in Belfast in 1933.