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No. My Dayton roots run way deep, and visiting WPAFB does not count.
Just kidding with you.
Kind of.
I'm telling you all: it's fightin' words to mention North Carolina in the same breath as the Wright Brothers, and we don't really care that Wilbur and Orville themselves packed up the flyer and took it there. We're very possessive of that airplane and its history.
The problem is that Daytonians don't understand that the Wright Flyer III truly was the world's first airplane and that it first flew at Huffman Prairie Flying Field.
Read travel reviews of Carillon Historical Park, or of Huffman Prairie Flying Field, and the first flight in NC still is sold as the truth and the Wright Flyer III is relegated to the ridiculous "first practical airplane" acclaim, and Huffman Prairie Flying Field remains generally unknown compared to Kitty Hawk.
No Wright Flyer III, no Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and no Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This argument should be more than just fighting words for Daytonians. This is their great heritage and they should proudly defend it.
If Trump were not President, and if this issue hadn't already been resolved by Congress, it probably wouldn't be as disturbing.
Dayton's great aviation history assets should be much more of an economic boon. Dayton is one of the world's great historical sites, and it should loudly and eagerly trumpet and defend that fact.
Just imagine the courage and skill that it took the Wright brothers at Huffman Prairie Flying Field to pilot those death traps far above the ground, especially compared to the short, low-level flights in a direct line at Kitty Hawk.
Trump currently is giving a speech at the Boeing plant in South Carolina.
He just said that the Wright brothers' first flight in an airplane was in North Carolina. While this may be common history, it's not accurate history, and likely will offend some persons in Ohio.
Like most Americans, Trump apparently knows nothing about Huffman Prairie Flying Field and the Wright Flyer III. Personally, I expect more from Presidents, who should employ fact checkers to review any historical representations made in speeches.
The bar was set exceptionally low when our previous president thought there were 57 states. He further complicated things when he referred to members of the military as corpses.
Oh, you must be a Democrat then. You people are so obnoxious you can't give the guy any credit at all. At least he knows we have 50 states, not 57, and he knows how to pronounce "Corps" (not "corpse"). And I'll bet he would know an "inhaler" is not called an "inhalator."
If you want to put Trump up against Obama on intelligence, I'd bet on Trump any day of the week. Obama wouldn't be able to do a fraction of the things Trump has done in his life. Obama is just an "agitator." Nothing more.
That's it. No longer supporting this man for not knowing this utterly vapid nonsense point. I mean serouisly this man should know everything everyone in every part of America WANTS HIM TO KNOW!!!!!!
The problem is that Daytonians don't understand that the Wright Flyer III truly was the world's first airplane and that it first flew at Huffman Prairie Flying Field.
Read travel reviews of Carillon Historical Park, or of Huffman Prairie Flying Field, and the first flight in NC still is sold as the truth and the Wright Flyer III is relegated to the ridiculous "first practical airplane" acclaim, and Huffman Prairie Flying Field remains generally unknown compared to Kitty Hawk.
No Wright Flyer III, no Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and no Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This argument should be more than just fighting words for Daytonians. This is their great heritage and they should proudly defend it.
If Trump were not President, and if this issue hadn't already been resolved by Congress, it probably wouldn't be as disturbing.
Dayton's great aviation history assets should be much more of an economic boon. Dayton is one of the world's great historical sites, and it should loudly and eagerly trumpet and defend that fact.
Just imagine the courage and skill that it took the Wright brothers at Huffman Prairie Flying Field to pilot those death traps far above the ground, especially compared to the short, low-level flights in a direct line at Kitty Hawk.
sorry person with a strange thread. this is NOT an "issue".
I think the first flight is commonly attributed to Kitty Hawk, and has been since I was a young boy, growing up in Ohio.
It is, and even those of us who grew up in Dayton know it's true, although we may feign indignance about it. The story of the Wright Brothers was well integrated into our local and state history courses. There's a certain sadness, however, that so many of the historical artifacts of the Wright Brothers' extraordinary lives and work were sent elsewhere. Carillon Park and the Air Force Museum both have replicas, the latter being the model on which Lt. Thomas Selfridge died. The Smithsonian has the original plane that flew at Kitty Hawk. Orville re-built it in 1916; it had suffered damage during test flights and was also soaked by the Great Dayton Flood while disassembled and in storage. The plane has been subject to repeated restorations over the past century and can be viewed at the National Air & Space Museum in D.C.
Kitty Hawk is the place where the first powered flight took place. That is a historical fact.
Yes, this is true! The brothers are still from Ohio, and NC was the best place for them to do it. Does anyone know the story???
The brothers began their experimentation in flight in 1896 at their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio. They selected the beach at Kitty Hawk as their proving ground because of the constant wind that added lift to their craft. In 1902 they came to the beach with their glider and made more than 700 successful flights.
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