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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPB_wright-patterson-afb_Dayton-OH.html
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... -John Gillespie Magee
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has led the nation throughout the evolution of U.S. military air superiority. When the origina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJP9_mccook-field_Dayton-OH.html
This field is small. Use it all. -sign at McCook Field
Entering World War I, the United States urgently needed to advance this new field of aeronautics. Thanks to the area's industrial strength, the military chose Dayton as the sight of a new a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJOD_huffman-prairie_Dayton-OH.html
The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. -Henry David Thoreau
After their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the Wright brothers could no longer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJOC_sir-george-cayley_Dayton-OH.html
I feel perfectly confident that we shall be able to transport ourselves and families, and their goods and chattels, more securely by air than by water...."-Sir George Cayley
After the Montgolfier brothers, mankind was ready to move beyond float…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJOB_montgolfier-brothers_Dayton-OH.html
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Joseph and Et?enne de Montgolfier, brothers living in France in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJO8_leonardo-da-vinci_Dayton-OH.html
"The kite and other birds, which beat their wings little, go seeking the course of the wind, and when the wind prevails...they will be seen at a great height." -Leonardo da Vinci
Four hundred years before the Wright Brothers, Leonardo da Vinci …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEQ_chinese-kites_Dayton-OH.html
Raise your sail one foot and get ten feet of wind. -Chinese Proverb
The world's first aircraft were the kites of China. The Chinese military first fashioned bird-shaped, wooden kites that were flown behind enemy lines to drop propaganda, to sen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEP_icarus_Dayton-OH.html
Oh that I had Wings. -Thomas Moore.
Mankind began dreaming of flight long ago in ancient Greece. Greek mythology reveals this dream in the tale of young Icarus. King Minos imprisoned Icarus and his father, Daedalus, on the isle of Crete. The tw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEL_the-solution-wing-warping_Dayton-OH.html
By the late 1800s, a handful of experimenters around the world were closing in on the riddle of powered flight. They could fly a plane into the air, but they still couldn't control it - keep it from pitching forward, turning side to side, or rolli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJDK_inventing-flight-the-centennial-celebration_Dayton-OH.html
On this site, from July 3 through July 20, 2003, the world focused its attention on Dayton as the Birthplace of Aviation for the one hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight and as a Signature Event of the Ohio Bicentennial Celeb…