Not Ohio!

[Taildragger]

My North Carolina Hillbilly roots are showing,

 

[skyactiv]

I assume that vanity plate is poking at Ohio's aviation roots.
It took the smart people of Ohio to come up with the first working airplane, but unfortunately, it was flown in North Carolina.

 

[skyactiv]

The goof up from a few years ago in which the artist put the plane backwards.

 

[eljefino]

^ That's nothing. I had a stack of stamps with the plane printed upside down. Just mailed my Xmas cards with 'em!

 

[simple_gifts]

You can google

Gustave Whitehead​

for another twist on the story

 

[Kira]

#4: Inverted Jennys? The USPS "reissued" the stamp. Cool but dear as I recall.

 

[Astro14]

You can google

Gustave Whitehead​

for another twist on the story

There are a lot of claims, but all of the witnesses, and all of the articles, were published decades after he claimed his flights took place.

 

[mk378]

The Wrights were the first to convince Wall Street that it was possible for a heavier than air machine to fly, by actually building and flying one publicly. This opened the floodgates of a huge amount of money to aircraft R&D. Many companies soon built better airplanes, while the Wright Brothers did not become significant players in the industry.

 

[Badgerstate]

I live in Ohio (not from here though, thank God) and I always found it interesting how Ohio tries to act like they invented airplanes and try to claim the Wright Brothers.

 

[fdcg27]

Ohio doesn't need to try to claim anything. The Wrights were residents of Dayton, OH, which in the early twentieth century was a tech hub. The Wright Flyer was made in Dayton and transported to the dunes of the Outer Banks for flight testing. The Wrights failed to adapt to technical developments in aircraft design so soon lost their lead.
The pace of technical development was rapid and only thirty years after the Wrights' first short flight there was an all metal twin engine airliner in passenger service and just twenty years after that the first turbojet airliner entered service.

 

[y_p_w]

The Wrights were the first to convince Wall Street that it was possible for a heavier than air machine to fly, by actually building and flying one publicly. This opened the floodgates of a huge amount of money to aircraft R&D. Many companies soon built better airplanes, while the Wright Brothers did not become significant players in the industry.

Ask a Brazilian who was the first to fly a heavier than air craft. Thatll get interesting since they claim the Wright Brothers were full of it.