The great da Vinci had principally some air-pressure difference unknowns issues and then frame-wing design mistakes, in his fail intention to flight as a bird. Then, centuries after the Brazilian Alberto Santos Dummont was the pioneer to pilot a machine heavier than the air taking flight by itself -verified by the French flying club and witnessed by a stunned Parisian crowd-. Clapping is still common in some regions around world and here in South America besides Colombia. It probably makes sense if we ponder that it could be the first plane ride or that luxury service for them. People clap as surely would clapped da Vinci after his first landing, my fellow countrymen clap as distinguished people they are. They clap to get land save and sound, they thank their Catholic God of our secular state what science brought them. It seems that air clapping history is more about to celebrate human adventure rather than a bizarre practice.
"Because we’re happy
Clap along if you feel like you touch down save and sound
Because we’re happy
Clap along if you feel like you´re pioneer in the world
Because we’re happy
Clap along if you know what tons of stuff across the sky is to you
Because we´re happy
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do"
Foto: http://www.actualidadpanamericana.com/aerocivil-prohibiria-aplaudir-tras-aterrizaje/
