Dayton Aviation: The Wright Brothers to McCook Field (Images

Dayton Aviation: The Wright Brothers to McCook Field (Images of Aviation)

Hallowed skies blanket Dayton, Ohio, a city once known as the â€œCradle of Aviationâ€â€•and with good reason. It was in Dayton that two brothers became the unlikely creators of the worldâ€™s first airplane, but that is just the start of the story. Dayton Aviation: The Wright Brothers to McCook Field examines Daytonâ€™s civil and military aviation history from its start with the Wright Brothers to the founding of Wright and Patterson Fields in the 1930s, a period that saw the construction of the worldâ€™s first airport, the Huffman Flying Prairie. Dayton was home to the first airplane factory and, later, the worldâ€™s largest aircraft factory. The city introduced the world to crop dusting, landing lights, free-fall parachutes, pressurized cabins, night aerial photography, the first private-cabin plane, and the first strategic bomber. In downtown Dayton, office workers could look out windows and watch history unfold as pilots broke one world record after another in the skies over the city. Dayton was, and still is, the airplane capital of the world. These images, captured by the founding fathers of aviation, show that from 1904 through the 1930s, if it was happening in the air, it was happening in Dayton.
Country USA
Brand Arcadia Publishing
Manufacturer Arcadia Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2012-09-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780738593890

Country	USA
Brand	Arcadia Publishing
Manufacturer	Arcadia Publishing
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2012-09-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780738593890

Dayton Aviation: The Wright Brothers to McCook Field (Images of Aviation)

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