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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: October 13, 2010
Caption: The 1903 Flyer Interpretive Panel
Additional Description: With the 1903 replica at Birmingham Alabama Museum of Flight. It reads “Wilbur and Orville Wright are the Fathers of Aviation. After years of experimenting with gliders and aerodynamics, the Wright brothers launched the first successful flight of an engine-driven, heavier-than-air, man-carrying flying machine on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Basic principles of that first airplane are used today in every plane that flies. In 1910, they established the United States’ first flying school at the current site of Maxwell AFB, Alabama. The world’s first flights were conducted that same year. Based on the Alabama experience, the brothers were the first aviators selected for induction into the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame.”
Submitted: November 2, 2010, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p134476
File Size: 1.088 Megabytes

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