- It was the smallest, most innovative, communications device of its era.
- It covered a surface area 364,938 times that of a Samsung 7 Galaxy mobile phone.
- It was not portable.
- In its Condenser building (its battery ) had an internal space the equivalent of 247,000 neatly stacked mobile phones.
- Its aerial was 17 Km long (yours is under 1 cm).
- It had only one key on the keypad.
- The sound created using the key pad could be heard 0.5 Km away.
- The station had only space for one contact in its contact list.
- It could not connect to the Internet.
- It did not have any privacy settings or anti virus protection.
- Security was provided by armed troops.
- It could not send emojis or Selfies.
- It is unknown whether it was used for sexting.
- It did not have an integrated camera
- Texting a Tweet took 8 minutes
- It did not have auto correct
- It could send 3 messages before needing to be recharged.
- It took 2 years to train to use the device
- The heaviest item in the generator house weighed the same as 2 elephants (African, Average size) or 405 local black faced Connemara Sheep (we checked) (average weight: un Sheared, Dry, end of Summer grazing).
The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft of the First World War
It took 3 months to design and build the prototype which first flew in November 1917.
Length: 43 ft 7 in (13.28 m)
Wingspan: 68 ft 1 in (20.75 m)
Height: 15 ft 8 in (4.77 m)
Wing area: 1,330 sq ft (123.56 m²)
Empty weight: 7,104 lb (3,222 kg)
Maximum. Take off weight: 10,884 lb (4,937 kg)
Power plant: 2 × Rolls-
Maximum speed: 100 mph (161 km/h)
Range: 900 mi (1,448 km)
Service ceiling: 7,000 ft (2,134 m)
Guns: 1 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Gun in Scarff ring in nose and 1 × in Scarff ring in mid-
Bombs: 2,476 lb (1,123 kg) of bombs
The Alcock and Brown model had additional fuel tanks
It did not have a toilet, WiFi, GPS, inflight entertainment, Air Hostesses or a roof over the cockpit.
It carried the first Airmail in the world.
Alcock and Brown were the first humans to be in both America and Europe in the same 24 hours.
The first return trip by an aircraft was in July 1919, one month after Alcock and Brown landed in Derrygimla when the British Airship R34 made a double Atlantic Crossing. On its return journey to Europe it made landfall at Cleggan just north of Derrigimlagh.
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