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Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton OH photo: poster - The Nation, State and City Welcome the Worlds Greatest Aviators, June 17-18, 1909, Dayton, OH
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photo: visitor at Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center

April 2004 Newsletter
Wright-Dunbar
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photo: The location of Huffman Prairie Flying Field within the secure area at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

General Management Plan Amendment 2004 Newsletter
Wright-Dunbar
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May 28, 2004
Walking Tours of Huffman Prairie Flying Field
Beginning May 29 through September 6, 2004, the staff of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park will conduct walking tours of Huffman Prairie Flying Field, the place where Wilbur and Orville Wright taught themselves to fly during 1904 and 1905.

May 27, 2004
Walking Tours of Wright-Dunbar Village
Starting May 29 through September 6, 2004, the staff of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park will conduct daily walking tours of Wright-Dunbar Village, the neighborhood in which Wilbur and Orville lived and worked.

February 19, 2003
National Park Service Publishes Handbook for the Wright Brothers Centennial
The National Park Service announces publication of First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane, a handbook for Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, in Dayton, Ohio and Wright Brothers National Memorial, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright

Did You Know?
On February 22, 1902, Scientific American publishes an account of the 1901 gliding experiments by the Wright brothers, based on Wilbur's paper "Some Aeronautical Experiments."

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