
The Dayton Flight Factory
The Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation
Timothy R. Gaffney(Author)
History Press Library Editions
Published on 24. June 2014
Book
Hardback
178 pages
978-1-5402-0962-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Wright brothers are known around the world as the inventors of the airplane. But few people know Wilbur and Orville invented the airplane in Dayton, Ohio--their hometown--not in North Carolina, where they tested it. Efforts to preserve historic places in the Dayton region where the Wright brothers lived and worked are paying off. Today, you can stroll the Wright brothers' neighborhood, see the original 1905 Wright Flyer III and walk the prairie where they flew it. A project to restore the Wright brothers' factory--the first American factory built to produce airplanes--will complete the picture. In this book, author Timothy R. Gaffney uses historical research and today's aviation heritage sites to retell the story of the Wright brothers from a hometown perspective.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5402-0962-7 (9781540209627)
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Timothy R. Gaffney is a writer and author who was born in Dayton and has lived in the region most of his life. After earning a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University in Columbus in 1974, he worked for the Piqua Daily Call and the Dayton Daily News, where he was the aerospace and defense writer for twenty-one years. He is currently director of communications for the nonprofit National Aviation Heritage Area.