Trinavantum
THIS WAS THE 2500th ENTRY IN OCTOBER 2016
TRINAVANTUM: First recorded flight attempt in Great Britain?
Location: Temple of Apollo (Trinavantum is now known as London)
Period of operation: Circa 843 BC?
NOTES: There are accounts mentioned by a few authors of aviation history that King Bladud was killed attempting to demonstrate that he could fly from the top of the Temple of Apollo using leather wings. As the date of the accepted accession of ‘England’ to Rome was in AD 43 and the Romans had been trading with the ‘English’ or Saxons for only a century or so before that, I would ask the question - so who exactly built this Temple to Apollo?
Were the Greeks taking package holidays here nearly 3000 years before the tables were turned and we invaded their islands en masse to soak up the the sun, retsina and ouzo? Did they also get drunk and have a tendency to drop their shorts, men and women alike in equal measure?
I imagine the report must surely be a hoax, but I will include it here just to demonstrate how powerful many rumours and myths are, and how long they persist!
But, one should never be lax in dismissing these legends. I have had a look at the history of AAIB reports and can find no mention of this singular fatal crash. What were they doing in those days? Probably sipping mead in a meadow no doubt and chilling out. Thank heavens they take a more serious approach to the subject these days.
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