Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development in Dayton, Ohio to create the first successful powered airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, with Orville at the controls.
At Dayton's Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center this beautiful dome in the auditorium displays the constellation the night before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. Their efforts and innovations christened the dawn of powered flight, propelling the United States into the international lead in the race to the sky.
Flight has come so far in 125 years, where will it go in the next 100 years?
ReplyDeleteWow, that dome is amazing. And, look where we are now. At any moment in time there are thousands of aircraft flying in the skies above us and all over the world.
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