Talk:Harry Ferguson

message: Despite not being able to find the source, I'm fairly sure this is a copyvio. It certainly seems like one. Stu ’Bout ye! 14:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Who was Harry Ferguson

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message: From this article: "After a delay of nearly a week caused by bad weather, the Ferguson monoplane finally took off from Hillsborough on 31 December 1909. Harry Ferguson became the first Irishman to fly and the first citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane." Cited to the 'Ferguson Family Museum' website and another website 'The Harry Ferguson Legacy'.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliott_Verdon_Roe :  "...he then began to build a full-size aeroplane, the Roe I Biplane, based on his winning model. He tested this at Brooklands in 1907–08, recording his first successful flight on 8 June 1908. After encountering problems with the management of Brooklands he moved his flight experiments to Walthamstow Marshes, where he rented space under a railway arch at the western end of the viaduct. Despite many setbacks, Roe persisted with his experiments and there is now a blue plaque commemorating his first successful flight (in July 1909) at the site. His aircraft, Avroplane, a triplane, is preserved in London's Science Museum." Cited to Roots In The Sky - A History of British Aerospace Aircraft, a published reference work. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_I_Triplane : "The Roe I Triplane (often later referred to as the Avro Triplane) was an early aircraft designed and built by A.V. Roe which was the first all-British aircraft to fly.[1] (Roe's previous biplane had a French engine)." Cited to another reference work: Avro Aircraft Since 1908. Also see Treadwell, British Aircraft of the First World War: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=n2KoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT34&lpg=PT34&dq=first+british+plane+a+v+roe&source=bl&ots=Okurq3P-CI&sig=xb2iILyoStR9KZHT-13TvVnljfI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9g-3JsNbSAhXBkywKHS4GCCoQ6AEITDAH#v=onepage&q=first%20british%20plane%20a%20v%20roe&f=false There is no mention of any flights by Ferguson here https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1959/1959%20-%200939.html , a source cited in this article. Unless anyone can come up with any evidence that Harry Ferguson flew his plane before 8 June 1908, I will be editing this article to remove references to his being the first person in Great Britain or Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane. Robocon1 (talk) 16:35, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The claim of first Irishman to fly & build own plane is now cited to website https://www.harryfergusonlegacy.com/index.php Also, "In the UK, the first-ever sustained powered flight was made in October 1908 by the American aviator Samuel Franklin Cody, and the first Briton to accomplish powered flight in the UK was John Moore-Brabazon in May 1909,[4] but this had not yet been achieved in Ireland.” has been corrected. According to http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Harry_Ferguson and and the newspaper article quoted in http://www.ferguson-museum.co.uk/monoplane.htm Ferguson’s flight was 130 yards, not sustained powered flight. Robocon1 (talk) 14:50, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
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message: My edit correcting this article in accordance with WP:IMOS (specifically Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles#Place of birth, death etc. was partially reverted without explanation. The guideline is quite clear on this.
:*"The place of birth, residence and/or death of people who were born, lived or died before 1921 in what today is Northern Ireland should be given simply as "Ireland", and they should not be described as "Northern Irish". "Ireland" should not normally be linked, but if thought necessary should be linked as Ireland, not Ireland"
In the absence of any guideline to the contrary, I propose to reinstate my change. FDW777 (talk) 16:08, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Once again I direct you to MOS:IMOS BIOPLACE. Given you have been ignoring this with your account as well as  and , it is your own motives that are in question. FDW777 (talk) 22:21, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
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message: Other recent editors: Greetings and felicitations.  I am the great grandson of Harry Ferguson's wife Maureen's brother Albert.  Here are my edits. —DocWatson42 (talk) 05:47, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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