Remembering the Wright Brothers

The Dayton Daily News reported yesterday that

Federal officials and Air Force generals helped Dayton celebrate its aviation heritage today by dedicating a new National Park Service interpretive center close to where the Wright brothers learned to fly almost a century ago. The interpretive center dedication took place on the 99th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flights and coincided with the Wright family's annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Wright Brothers Memorial in a hilltop park that overlooks the flying field...

Orville made the world's first sustained, controlled flight in a powered airplane near Kitty Hawk, N.C., on Dec. 17, 1903. He and Wilbur continued their flying experiments on Huffman Prairie in 1904 and 1905. The patch where they flew is now a part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and one of four sites that make up the national park.