Description
The Wright brothers are known world wide as the inventors of the airplane. But few people know Wilbur and Orville invented the airplane in Dayton, Ohio–their native land–not in North Carolina, where they tested it. Efforts to preserve historic places within the Dayton region where the Wright brothers lived and worked are paying off. Nowadays, you’ll stroll the Wright brothers’ neighborhood, see the original 1905 Wright Flyer III and walk the prairie where they flew it. A project to revive the Wright brothers’ factory–the first American factory built to supply airplanes–will complete the picture. On this book, creator Timothy R. Gaffney uses historical research and Nowadays’s aviation heritage sites to retell the story of the Wright brothers from a native land point of view.