Aviation heritage
Wright "B" Flyer pilots, plane lost in crash
July 31, 2011
Wright "B" Flyer's Silver Bird taking off on its first flight test at Springfield Airport in June. (Photo: Timothy R. Gaffney)
Sunday, July 31, 2011
MIAMISBURG, Ohio – Wright "B" Flyer Inc. is is mourning the loss of two pilots, Mitchell Cary and Don Gum, following their crash in the organization's newest Wright Model B lookalike, the Silver Bird.
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Wright "B" Flyer's newest airplane flies
June 17, 2011
Volunteer pilots Don Gum and Don Stroud fly Wright "B" Flyer's new Silver Bird on its first up-and-away test flight at Springfield Airport. (Photo: Timothy R. Gaffney)
Friday, June 17, 2011
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – A one-of-a-kind airplane designed to showcase Dayton’s aviation heritage around the world made its first two test flights at Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport on Tuesday, June 14. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Air pioneer Kittinger brings thrill of flight to kids
May 12, 2011
National Aviation Hall of Fame Enshrinee Joe Kittinger talks to students from a hot air balloon basket during a visit to Valley View Middle School in Germantown, Ohio. (Photo: Timothy R. Gaffney)
Thursday, May 12, 2011
GERMANTOWN, Ohio – National Aviation Hall of Fame Enshrinee Joe Kittinger brought the thrill of flight to kids today with a visit to Valley View Middle School that included lofting several students and teacher Jill Weaver in a tethered balloon. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Lockheed Martin pledges $10M to Air Force Museum Foundation
May 09, 2011
View of the Cold War Gallery from a balcony in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. (Photo: Timothy R. Gaffney)
Monday, Msy 9, 2011
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. today announced its acceptance of a $10 million pledge from Lockheed Martin Corp. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Boeing pledges $5M for Air Force museum
February 17, 2011
Artist's rendering of a space shuttle in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's planned space gallery. (Image: National Museum of USAF)
Money would go to building where USAF wants NASA to put Atlantis
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Boeing Company will give $5 million to the Air Force Museum Foundation for the benefit of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Boeing and the Museum announced today. Read more at AviationDayton.com
New interstate signs alert motorists to National Aviation Heritage Area
February 10, 2011
New interstate highway signs mark National Aviation Heritage Area on I-70 and I-75 in Ohio. (Photo: NAHA)
Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011
DAYTON, Ohio – New interstate highway signs are alerting travelers in southwestern Ohio that they are passing through the National Aviation Heritage Area. Read more at AviationDayton.com
National Aviation Hall of Fame reveals 2011 inductees
December 18, 2010
Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010
Dayton, Ohio – The National Aviation Hall of Fame Friday night revealed the names of the four individuals elected for enshrinement in July 2011, along with the recipient of its 2011 Milton Caniff “Spirit of Flight” Award.
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Dayton, Ohio – The National Aviation Hall of Fame Friday night revealed the names of the four individuals elected for enshrinement in July 2011, along with the recipient of its 2011 Milton Caniff “Spirit of Flight” Award.
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Dayton honors Wrights, Holbrooke
December 17, 2010
C-5A Galaxy from the 445th Airlift Wing flies over Wright Memorial on 107th anniversary of powered flight. (Photo: Timothy R. Gaffney)
Friday, Dec. 17, 2010
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Base officials, civic leaders and aviation heritage enthusiasts celebrated the 107th anniversary of powered flight at the Wright Memorial near Dayton this morning. Later, local leaders remembered the late Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, chief U.S. negotiator in the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Newest Wright "B" Flyer made to travel, ready for flight tests
December 16, 2010
Wright "B" Flyer's newest Model B lookalike makes a test hop in November. (Photo: Timothy R. Gaffney)
Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
DAYTON, Oh – A one-of-a-kind airplane designed to showcase Dayton’s aviation heritage around the world has been off the ground and is ready for a formal flight test program to begin next spring, the all-volunteer group that built it announced today.
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Hudson to direct Air Force's national museum
December 03, 2010
Friday, Dec. 3, 2010
The Air Force has selected retired Lt. Gen. John L. "Jack" Hudson to be its next director of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Now the museum's deputy director, Hudson will succeed retiring director Charles Metcalf, a retired Air Force major general.
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Wright "B" Flyer re-enacts world's first cargo flight
October 03, 2010
Columbus skyline looms as modern Wright "B" Flyer re-enacts world's first cargo flight. (Photo: Timothy R. Gaffney)
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Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010
DAYTON, Ohio – Wright "B" Flyer Inc. volunteers today re-enacted the world's first cargo flight, following close to the original route from historic Huffman Prairie near Dayton, Ohio, to Rickenbacker International Airport near Columbus. Phil Parmelee made the original flight on Nov. 7, 1910. Full story | Photos
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Follow cargo flight re-enactment with Twitter
September 30, 2010
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Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010
DAYTON, Ohio – The public is invited to follow the Wright B Flyer on Saturday, Oct. 2, as it takes off from Wright Patterson AFB and travels east to Columbus Ohio, replicating the world’s first air cargo flight.
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Aviation groups to re-enact first cargo flight
September 21, 2010
Phil Parmelee's grand nephew gets a sense of first cargo flight. (Photo by Timothy R. Gaffney)
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010
DAYTON, Ohio – Two descendents of Phil Parmelee, the Wright Company pilot who made the world's first cargo flight in a Wright Model B Flyer in 1910, got a sense today of what cargo flying was like when Parmelee delivered a bolt of silk from Dayton to Columbus in Ohio.
Philip McKeachie and his sister Lecia Lamphere, both of Michigan, received brief orientation flights at a press conference that announced plans to re-enact the cargo flight on Saturday, Oct. 2. "It brought tears to my eyes," McKeachie said.
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Birthplace of Aviation draws Cirrus pilots
June 17, 2010
Red Tail Project's P-51C Mustang was in Dayton Thursday, June 17, for the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association gathering. (Photo: Timothy R. Gaffney)
Thursday, June 17, 2010
DAYTON, Ohio – The Birthplace of Aviation is the scene of a homecoming of sorts for the spiritual descendents of the Wright brothers – some 400 members of the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association have descended here for the eighth annual COPA Migration.
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Ohio politicians to NASA: Land a shuttle here
April 27, 2010
Concept illustration of space shuttle exhibit in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. (Source: NMUSAF)
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio's congressional delegation have sent letters to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. urging the space agency to place one of its soon-to-be-retired space shuttle orbiters in the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
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Doolittle Raiders reunion to draw B-25 bombers
April 11, 2010
Updated: Saturday, April 17, 2010
Photo album: B-25 static display
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – What's being called the largest gathering of B-25 bombers since World War II went on public display today on the runway behind the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
The static display is in conjunction with the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders' 68th reunion this week at the museum. The bombers flew in this morning after gathering earlier this week at Grimes Field in Urbana.
Monday, April 12, 2010
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders are to hold their 68th reunion this week at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. An armada of vintage B-25 Mitchell bombers – the airplane the Raiders flew – is to gather here in their honor. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Children's book features WACOs, WACO Field
April 09, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
TROY, Ohio – A new children’s book by Troy Author Meaghan Fisher features WACO Airplanes and Historic WACO Field. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Dayton aviation heritage was on stage in Texas
March 08, 2010
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
MIAMI TWP., Ohio – Wright "B" Flyer Inc. volunteers showcased Dayton's aviation heritage in San Antonio, Texas, last week by deploying two of the organization's Wright Model B Flyer lookalikes for the Military Flight Centennial celebration on Fort Sam Houston.
WBF volunteer pilots flew Wright "B" Flyer No. 001 overhead in the March 2 celebration while others taxied the Valentine Wright Model B Flyer on the parade field where Army Lt. Benjamin Foulois made the first military solo flight from a military field 100 years earlier.
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Replica Model B Flyer still paying dividends
February 23, 2010
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010
MIAMI TWP., Ohio – Greene County officials today praised Wright "B" Flyer Inc. volunteers for continuing to maintain and showcase a replica flyer whose acquisition the county made possible.
Greene County Commissioner Rick Perales presented the non-profit organization with a resolution of appreciation the commission approved last week as the group was preparing to deploy two airplanes and 13 volunteers from its home base on Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport.
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Wright "B" Flyer getting ready for road trip
January 15, 2010
Wright B Flyer's "Brown Bird" in its trailer
Friday, Jan. 15, 2010
UPDATED: PHOTOS OF PREPARATIONS
MIAMI TWP., Ohio – Wright "B" Flyer Inc. volunteers are preparing two of the nonprofit organization's Wright "B" Flyer lookalikes for an unprecedented road trip to San Antonio, Texas.
The one-of-a-kind airplanes — each one independently designed and built to resemble the Wright Company's first mass-produced airplane — are to take part in a ceremony on March 2 at Fort Sam Houston to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first military solo flight from a military field. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Wright Flyer replica crashes on Huffman Prairie; pilot hurt
October 01, 2009
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A Wright Flyer III replica crashed on Huffman Prairie this morning during a practice flight. The builder and pilot, Mark Dusenberry, was airlifted to Miami Valley Hospital. Federal authorities are investigating the crash.
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Brazilian Air Force delivers rare plane to Dayton
September 22, 2009
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009
DAYTON, Ohio – A Brazilian air force C-130 transport plane stopped at Dayton International Airport today to drop off a rare replica of the Demoiselle – a 1907 airplane designed by Brazilian air pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont. Fernando de Arruda Botelho, a Brazilian industrialist and aviation history enthusiast, is loaning the airplane for display in the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana.
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Committee eyes Wright brothers as Ohio icons
September 22, 2009
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009
DAYTON, Ohio – The Wright brothers never ran for national offices, but they – or, rather, their visages – might end up in the U.S. Capitol anyway.
Ohio lawmakers are looking for a new representative of Ohio to replace an out-of-favor politician in Statuary Hall of the Capitol. Three members of the National Statuary Collection Study Committee, led by its chairman, State Sen. Mark Wagoner, R-Ottawa Hills, visited the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Monday, Sept. 21, to learn about the Wright brothers' aviation heritage.
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National Park officials tour Dayton area sites
August 19, 2009
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009
DAYTON, Ohio – Top officials of the National Park Service made like tourists today, stepping out of a motor coach and snapping pictures at the Dayton area's national park sites. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Betty Darst receives aviation heritage volunteer award
August 13, 2009
DAYTON, Ohio – The National Aviation Heritage Alliance named Beavercreek resident and longtime aviation heritage volunteer Betty Darst as the winner of the Ivonette Wright Miller award at its 2009 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 11. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Aviation heritage figures in marketing plans
August 12, 2009
DAYTON, Ohio – Despite tight budgets, aviation heritage and aerospace groups are working together on plans to promote Dayton region and Ohio aerospace business at the 2010 Farnborough International Air Show and other venues in coming years in light of positive experiences over the past 12 months, according to leaders who spoke at an annual meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 11. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Warbirds offer rides, nostalgia at Dayton airport
August 05, 2009
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2009
MIAMI TWP., Ohio – A World War II-era B-17G Flying Fortress alighted on Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport today, the first of three warbirds coming to offer tours, rides, nostalgia and a bit of living history to local aviation enthusiasts. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Dayton's aviation heritage on display at AirVenture
July 26, 2009
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — Two examples of the Dayton region's aviation heritage — the Grimes Flying Lab, a restored aircraft lighting testbed based on Grimes Field in Urbana, and the new Wright "B" Flyer lookalike, based on Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport in Miami Twp., Montgomery County — are on display at the world's largest general aviation fly-in. Photos Read more at AviationDayton.com
Dayton technology powered now-silent Ulysses
June 30, 2009
MIAMISBURG, Ohio – Another chapter in the Dayton region's history of space exploration ended today when the European Space Agency switched off its distant Ulysses spacecraft. Orbiting the sun in the cold reaches of space far beyond earth, Ulysses was freezing, but its plutonium-powered generator powered the spacecraft's radio until the end, more than 18 years after its launch. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Welcome Home celebration honors Wright brothers
June 23, 2009
The city of Dayton all but shut down a century ago on June 17 to welcome home the Wright brothers on their return from Europe. The Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park’s centennial celebration for the inventors of the airplane was much more modest on Saturday, June 20, but it had one thing the first celebration lacked: A Wright Flyer flyover.
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Wright Flyer sculpture marks Netherlands centennial
June 18, 2009
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Underscoring the worldwide nature of Dayton's aviation heritage, the Netherlands kicked off its own first flight centennial today by dedicating a full size, stainless-steel sculpture of a Wright Flyer that made the first powered flight on Dutch soil in 1909.
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Aviation centennials continue in Dayton and Europe
June 16, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Nearly six years after Dayton celebrated a century of powered flight, the centennial celebrations continue – not only in Dayton, but also in Europe. Dayton on Saturday will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its Welcome Home celebration for the Wright brothers, while the Netherlands celebrates a century of flght and France marks 100 years of air shows. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Paul Laurence Dunbar House to re-open for tours
June 04, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
DAYTON, Ohio – The Paul Laurence Dunbar House State Memorial will re-open for public tours under a management agreement between the Ohio Historical Society and Dayton History, the historical society has announced.
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Russian rag wing getting the Wright stuff
May 19, 2009
TROTWOOD, Ohio— To keep its other aircraft flying in an economic downtown, a Commemorative Air Force squadron is tackling a mammoth refurbishing job – a Soviet-era biplane that looks like an old-time cropduster on steroids.
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