Ep. 26: Texas Takes Flight
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The first man to fly a powered aircraft was a Texan named Jacob Brodbeck. History credits the Wright brothers but it’s time to correct the record! Learn about German immigration, a fascinating Texan, and the first airplane flight in this episode of Wise About Texas.
Painting of Jacob Brodbeck’s 1865 flight (photo: Cibolo Nature Center)
Jacob Brodbeck, the first pilot.
Jacob Bordbeck’s grave
Indianola, Texas street scene
An aerial view of the Herff farm where Brodbeck flew (photo Cibolo Nature Center)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy in what? |
| 0:01.0 | How do you in what? |
| 0:02.0 | How do you? |
| 0:04.0 | How do you and do you Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wise and I want to thank you for taking the time to listen and preserve and promote Texas history. |
| 0:25.4 | That's what this podcast is all about and we have some fun along the way. |
| 0:29.2 | So thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:31.3 | Before we begin, I want to thank everybody out there for the great |
| 0:34.8 | input on the Camel episode. The last episode of Wise About Texas was on the |
| 0:39.5 | Camel Corps. If you haven't heard that go to wise about Texas.com and check it out. It's a pretty fun episode. It was a fun episode to do and the feedback's been tremendous, but I've also had a lot of questions about the pictures that I was posting along with the episode and some of the |
| 0:54.8 | pictures that I was tweeting and putting on the Facebook page. So let me tell you a little |
| 0:58.6 | bit about how that episode came about a couple of weeks before I recorded and released it. I was down in Indianaola and I took |
| 1:06.9 | some pictures of course of the various places and one of the things that I took a picture of |
| 1:11.8 | and I put this out there on Twitter was the |
| 1:14.3 | monument to the Camel Corps because they had landed those camels right there where I was |
| 1:18.9 | standing at Indianapolis and that gave me the idea to do the episode. |
| 1:24.4 | Now the Camel Corps is a great classic Texas story. |
| 1:26.8 | One of those sort of could only happen in Texas things. |
| 1:29.4 | So anybody that's going to write about Texas History or do any kind of Texas History |
| 1:33.7 | works going to talk about that Camel Corps but I decided to move it up the list |
| 1:38.0 | having stood there and then at the time that I was doing the episode and when I was in Indiana, I had a West Texas dove hunt already planned for the week after I released the episode. |
| 1:51.6 | Well, what I didn't realize was the ranch, I had never been to the |
| 1:55.3 | ranch where we went in West Texas and it was, it borders a Big Bend National Park and it turns |
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