"songbird sweet and sour jane and music is my aeroplane, it's my aeroplane"i move to north carolina. i notice the license plates say "first in flight". i'm an ohio girl. i know that OHIO is the "birthplace of aviation". what is up with that?
FLASH FORWARD today
living in the state for 23 years, i consider myself a tarheel. and, raising my kids there, i had the opportunity to study that phrase...first in flight. since november is aviation history month, i thought i would take this time to explain that ohio and north carolina, both, have the right to take credit for the wright brothers and their world~changing invention.in 1896, the wright brothers (orville and wilbur) started working on a series of gliders, in their bicycle shop on the south side of dayton, ohio. the gliders were, both, unmanned and piloted. each model got more sophisticated. needing regular breezes and soft landing surfaces, it was suggested that they test their flying machines in kitty hawk, north carolina. after testing several versions of their gliders, they travelled back home, to ohio, and began work on "the flyer"...the first powered airplane. back in kitty hawk on december 13, 1903, at approximately 10:35a, orville wright launched the first airplane flight in the history of ever.
so, you see...both states are right. the idea of the airplane was conceived and built in ohio, making it the "birthplace of aviation". but the first ACTUAL flight took place in north carolina...technically making that state "first in flight". and i am proud to be able to claim both as home.
^looking for something to do this weekend? in honor of aviation history month, why not visit the national airforce museum? it's located at:
1100 Spaatz St Dayton, OH 45431 (937) 255-3286
hours of operation: 9a~5p, seven days a week. closed thanksgiving, christmas, and new year's day
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