The wife and I were driving home yesterday, around 1:30pm on US-35 in downtown Dayton when she asked me, "What is that in the sky?"

I looked up, and lo and behold, it's the Wright Flyer!! Or one of a similar type, (they kind of all look the same to me. )  But it had the control surfaces in front, and pusher engines.

It was flying about 1,000 feet (if that) overhead, and was traveling towards the Airforce base. My guess is that it is some type of practice run for next months Airshow here in Dayton.


If you've never seen one of these in the air before, you must. It got me to wondering what it must have been like back then to see no other type of plane but these.


Anyone else in this area see this?


EDIT: After quite a bit of searching, I think it is a part of this:

Ranger Talks – The Wrights at Huffman Prairie
Huffman Prairie Flying Field
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Gate 16A to Pylon Road

Date: May 23 to September 7, 2009 or by reservation
Time: Daily 10:30 a.m..
Explore the pasture where the Wright Brothers continued their work after Kitty Hawk as they developed the world's first practical air plane, the 1905 Wright Flyer III, and taught 119 men and women how to fly.

ShaneG wrote on Jun 21^st, 2009 at 5:55am:


Imagine what it was like when there was only one airplane you might see!!    Even airships and balloons were quite a rare sight back then... it must have been astounding to see a heavier-than-air machine puttering along in the sky.

Have you seen this film of Wilbur Wright flying the original in Italy? Click on "See the film" at the bottom of the page. http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/PY/322/fiche_technique.htm?ID=322

Not sure how I discovered it now. I thought someone posted it here but I can't find the thread.