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View the most current International Trails Symposium news: www.AmericanTrails.org/2017


The Smith Aviation Heritage and Education Center.


The Wrights were dogged in their  and the bicycle was key in their re- search, brainstorming and small-scale experiments— all of which were done in Dayton. They built a wind tunnel at their cycle shop to test their glider models, and they attached a platform to the handlebars of one of their bikes to test their aerodynamic theories of lift and drag. Early versions of the Wright Flyer even contained bicycle parts. The brothers did build and test their full-size planes at Kitty Hawk, as it gave them the wind conditions they needed and the privacy they wanted. “But they lived here and did the bulk  “They conceived this idea of a control-  in Dayton.”


Liftoff


 months after another failed attempt to  more than a few seconds— the Wright Brothers achieved what had eluded all others before them. The Library of Congress website describes it simply   - ing 12 seconds and spanning 120 feet. Later that day, Wilbur kept the Flyer in the air for nearly one minute and traveled more than 850 feet.


The brothers continued to test and


 with investors in 1909 to create Wright Company, which manufactured and


A lot of our aviation heritage sites are either on or close to our bicycle trails.


marketed airplanes for 10 years at a factory in west Dayton. Wright Com- pany changed hands more than once after that, eventually becoming part of General Motors. Although it didn’t stay in the aviation business, GM expanded around the Wright factory buildings until its closing in 2008. Many of the buildings GM added have since been demolished— but the Wrights’ original factory buildings still  NAHA to revitalize the entire site and enhance the region’s rightful claim as not only the birthplace of the airplane but the birthplace of the aviation industry, 


Soon, a new $10 million public library  adjacent to the factory buildings. NAHA is raising money to stabilize the factories, while pursuing other development proj-


ects for the site, with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math education; aviation workforce training; and aerospace business.


Connecting to History


Dayton’s rich tradition of innova- tion has been well documented for decades, and all you need to discover it is a pair of hiking shoes or a bike  of our aviation heritage sites— not just the Wright Brothers sites— are either on or close to our bicycle trails.”  and hiking trails in the Dayton area, the region’s historical trail of innova- tion connects us to the wheels and wings that propelled the Wright Brothers. They didn’t just build the - son said. They changed the world, and they changed us as human beings by 


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