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The
Wrights spent a considerable amount of time developing a dependable,
fully-controllable airplane at the actual Huffman Prairie Flying
Field. While visiting this field, imagine the hundreds of test flights
of the Wright Flyer III...and the training of more than a hundred
pilots, including some of the first military flyers, at the Wright
School of Aviation located on the site. What's more, it was the site
for the first commercial air-freight flight, which took off from
Huffman Prairie Flying Field to Columbus, Ohio in November 1910.
You can also see replicas of their 1905 hanger and launching catapult.
While visiting the Huffman Prairie sites, you'll want to visit the Wright Memorial,
a 27-acre designed landscape. The memorial was dedicated on August 19, 1940—Orville Wright's 69th birthday. The monument itself is a 17-foot-high obelisk
of pink North Carolina granite.
By visiting these sites, you'll have a new appreciation for efforts and accomplishments
of the Wright brothers, and how they took aviation from that brief flight at
Kitty Hawk to actual cargo and military service in less than a decade.
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For more information,
please visit:
www.nps.gov/daav/
planyourvisit/facilitysites.htm
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