Today In History - December 17th, 1903 In the 1890s, the Wrights owned a bicycle shop in Dayton, OH. In their free time, they studied the challenges and successes of other aeronautical pioneers, beginning with Octave Chanute’s Progress in Flying Machines. Their numerous innovations to both the process of designing and testing aircraft and to airplane itself let to the Wright brothers’ success in 1903. Their original airplane is now in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The Mus

The Chanute 1904 replica glider on the move! #avgeek #afmuseum100 | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force