How is it that two bicycle-shop owners from Dayton, Ohio, managed to do what many ... success of their enterprise paid off for the Wright brothers on December 17, 1903, the day they ushered ...

The banner reading “Birthplace of Aviation” – recognizing Ohio as the Wright Brothers’ home state – streams out from the plane as if it was behind it, but is attached to the front.

The brothers had assumed that they could ... in advance a screw propeller's performance. WILBUR WRIGHT TO OCTAVE CHANUTE DAYTON, June 18, 1903 The papers on screws [propellers], by various writers ...

The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur ... and more await on your day trip from Dayton. Dayton, Ohio is home to some hugely ...