Monday, October 24, 2022

first in flight {october 24, 2022}

Ohio and North Carolina have a long feud about which state deserves credit for the first airplane flight.

Orville and Wilbur Wright, who made that first historic flight, were from Ohio and built the first plane at their shop in Dayton, Ohio, but that plane made its first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

North Carolina's license plate boasts "FIRST IN FLIGHT" while Ohio's states it the "BIRTHPLACE OF AVIATION." 

On a recent walk through Woodland Cemetery where the Wright Brothers are buried, one visitor to the gravesite continued the debate...

The shell on Wilbur's grave says, "OH first! Thank you! 

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