OH -- Dayton -- Huffman Prairie Flying Field:
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- HPFF_070702_08.JPG: Commuter Flyers:
Wilbur and Orville Wright rode a trolley here almost every week here on Sundays -- during the 1904 and 1905 [???] ... It was ten miles from their West Dayton home to this stop in the middle of what was then open farm country. Here, in the privacy of a cow pasture, they would do some of their greatest work perfecting their flying machine.
- HPFF_070702_11.JPG: Wright-Patterson in the distance
- HPFF_070702_23.JPG: The white flags indicate the flying path of the airplanes
- HPFF_070702_38.JPG: The borders of the first aviation school house
- HPFF_070702_64.JPG: The starting device (reproduction)
- HPFF_070702_67.JPG: Hangar (reproduction)
- Wikipedia Description: Huffman Prairie
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Huffman Prairie, part of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, is an 84 acre (.34 kmē) patch of rough pasture outside Dayton, Ohio now known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field, where the Wright Brothers undertook the difficult and sometimes dangerous task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots.
After they began making use of Huffman Prairie in 1904, the Wright brothers made hundreds of flights here after developing the 1905 Wright Flyer III (the plane they considered to be the first practical airplane), testing the aircraft built by the Wright Company. At the Wright Flying School, also located here, they trained more than a hundred pilots, including the flyers for the Wright Exhibition Team and the first military flyers, including Henry H. Arnold and Thomas DeWitt Milling. The United States Army Signal Corps purchased the field in 1917 and renamed it, along with 2,000 adjacent acres (8 kmē), Wilbur Wright Field. In 1948 the area was merged with nearby Wright Field and became Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The National Park Service currently operates this historic site where visitors can see where the Wrights developed the world’s first practical airplane as well as replicas of their 1905 hangar and launching catapult.
The associated Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center is located at the Wright Memorial on an overlook about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the flying field. This facility addresses the specific problems Orville and Wilbur Wright encountered while they were perfecting their flying machine, their first demonstration flights in the United States and in Europe, their exhibition team, and their manufacturing facility in Dayton, Ohio. The center also highlights the continuing legacy of Orville and Wilbur Wright as embodied in the development of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the continuing aeronautical research at this Air Force facility.
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