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Plans in the Air
2014
Overview
Huffman Prairie, a meadow located about eight miles (12.87 kilometers) east of Dayton, Ohio, was the site of Wilbur and Orville Wright’s first powered flights in 1904 and 1905 (fig. 4). The flat, open terrain provided them with a suitable experimentation ground near their hometown after their first success at powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. The Wright brothers had moved in 1900 to Kitty Hawk, where steady winds to carry their craft and soft, sandy soils to cushion crashes had provided them with an ideal testing ground for their early experiments. As soon as technological progress
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University of Virginia Press
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