Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Ohio
Author: United States. National Park Service
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. National Park Service
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. National Park Service
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Timothy R. Gaffney
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-06-24
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 162584848X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Wright brothers are known around the world as the inventors of the airplane. But few people know Wilbur and Orville invented the airplane in Dayton, Ohio--their hometown--not in North Carolina, where they tested it. Efforts to preserve historic places in the Dayton region where the Wright brothers lived and worked are paying off. Today, you can stroll the Wright brothers' neighborhood, see the original 1905 Wright Flyer III and walk the prairie where they flew it. A project to restore the Wright brothers' factory--the first American factory built to produce airplanes--will complete the picture. In this book, author Timothy R. Gaffney uses historical research and today's aviation heritage sites to retell the story of the Wright brothers from a hometown perspective.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kenneth M. Keisel
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0738593893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hallowed skies blanket Dayton, Ohio, a city once known as the "Cradle of Aviation"--and with good reason. It was in Dayton that two brothers became the unlikely creators of the world's first airplane, but that is just the start of the story. Dayton Aviation: The Wright Brothers to McCook Field examines Dayton's civil and military aviation history from its start with the Wright Brothers to the founding of Wright and Patterson Fields in the 1930s, a period that saw the construction of the world's first airport, the Huffman Flying Prairie. Dayton was home to the first airplane factory and, later, the world's largest aircraft factory. The city introduced the world to crop dusting, landing lights, free-fall parachutes, pressurized cabins, night aerial photography, the first private-cabin plane, and the first strategic bomber. In downtown Dayton, office workers could look out windows and watch history unfold as pilots broke one world record after another in the skies over the city. Dayton was, and still is, the airplane capital of the world. These images, captured by the founding fathers of aviation, show that from 1904 through the 1930s, if it was happening in the air, it was happening in Dayton.