charlie mcdermott felt that man was meant to fly. he tried to invent the airplane. he filed a patent for a device for traveling through the air. it had 20 pairs of wings and was operated like a bicycle. it was human powered and it was effective as a glider. if he got high enough and got a good when he was able to follow -- he was determined that if a chicken could fly and a buzzard could fly a man could fly and eventually women could fly to the store and pick up food and fly home again. the only reason it didn't work with human power could not get -- if he had a gasoline powered mower he could have flow. of the catalan lower -- a lawn mower he would have been able to fly. he published articles about offline device in scientific american. the arkansas state fair in little rock. in philadelphia. there was lots of literature about his flying machine and very little doubt that wilbur and orville wright cited articles were sought a working model and borrow some of his ideas. they had what he didn't have. they have a gasoline engine so they invented air flight and got all

one of the earliest interesting people in arkansas was a plantation owner's name charlie mcdermott. charlie grew up in louisiana and had family plantations down there but he was looking for a place to resettle and he really got into eastern arkansas and found land along the bayou bartholomew fair that he really felt was special, so he purchased that land and built a house and was thriving and brought his wife in their many children to arkansas and were growing up there. in addition to being a plantation owner and a farmer, charlie was an inventor. he invented a new way of making an iron or wedge that was partly hollowed but what do the same amount of footing work but he was always trying to plot. charlie mcdermott thought that man was meant to fly so he tried as hard as he could to invent the airplane. actually filed a patent for a device for traveling through the air. it had 20 -- it was operated like a bicycle. it was human powered get it was effective as a glider. if he got it high enough and got a good when he was able to travel short distances with it and he was determined that