Talk:Jimmie Angel

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This entry states: "The creation of the artificial horizon is to some extent related to him since through his glass or bottle of beer he was able to determine the pitch and roll of the aircraft as he was flying in harsh meteorological conditions." Is this comment intended to imply that Jimmy Angel was one of the inventors of the artificial horizon? In reality, a glass of fluid makes a poor artificial horizon, as you may have noticed in a commercial airliner, which typically ensures during most turns that fluid in your glass stays level. Since our sense of balance comes from the fluid cannals in our inner ear, a pilot can easily get an aircraft into a spin when in cloud for the same reason. A gyroscope is needed to maintain an effective artificial horizon. JCWilson 22:50, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The aircraft

I updated the caption under the picture and the text of the page because it implied two things which were untruth.

• The El Rio Caroni plane was bought by Jimmy Angel after he had discovered the Angel Falls, while the caption implied that in that aircraft the discovery had been made.
• The original aircraft is different in several details from the one on show in front of Ciudad Bolivar airport, fact which is confirmed by people who had seen the original aircraft standing atop the tepuy in the 60s as well as by comparing pictures taken by them of the original plane and those of the replica. The fact was also vaguely confirmed by soldiers actually employed in the lifting down of the vehicle.Balrog-kun (talk) 14:27, 28 November 2007 (UTC)