Picture of the Day for 7/14/2011. I'm in Dayton, Ohio to attend a National Aviation Hall of Fame event. In the meantime, I'll be spending a couple of days sightseeing. "What is there to see in Dayton, Ohio?" you might be asking. Plenty. Dayton, Ohio was home to the Wright brothers and is home to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is located.
The sightseeing started off with a visit to the Wright Brothers Memorial Park (pictured above). At the visitor center, I managed to keep a Wright Flyer up in the air for three minutes in a simulator which earned me a certificate. The certificate was designed mostly for children, but I still took one!
After the park we took a short jaunt to the Huffman Prairie Flying Field (pictured below) where the Wright brothers spent a couple of years after their first successful powered flight at Kitty Hawk laboring to produce a workable airplane. They focused their time and energy solely on this task, conducting experiment after experiment. Their dedication is amazing. Pictured below are replicas of their 1905 hangar and launching catapult.
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