Friday, July 22, 2011



Early in the day, we were traveling along a scenic byway and stumbled upon Wilbur Wright's birthplace and an excellent museum. When we arrived in Dayton we then went to the Packard Museum.
Here I am standing next to a $3mil custom-built Packard that was too cool.
Then we went to the second of the five Wright Cycle locations. This is the place where the Wright Brothers made the decision to continue in the footsteps of The German engineer Otto Lilienthal - "the Flyer Man" after Lilienthal died in an accident.
The last photo is of me at Huffman Prairie where the Wrights perfected controlled flight in 1905. The building in the background is a reproduction of their hanger where they stored their aircraft, repaired and assembled them. The derrick is a  reproduction of the one they used for their catapult mechanism to launch their aircraft. From the location behind me in the photo Wilbur took off on one day in 1905 and flew around this field 29 times - until he ran out of fuel. 

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