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Huffman Prairie, also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park.The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place where the Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots.
Huffman Prairie Flying Field and the Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center, both located within Wright-Patterson Air Force Base just northeast of Dayton in Fairborn, Ohio, but operated by the National Park Service and open to the public. Wright Company factory, opened in 1910 as the first airplane factory and school
The Wright Flyer III is the third powered aircraft by the Wright Brothers, built during the winter of 1904–05. Orville Wright made the first flight with it on June 23, 1905 . The Wright Flyer III had an airframe of spruce construction with a wing camber of 1-in-20 as used in 1903 , rather than the less effective 1-in-25 used in 1904 .
Dusenberry last flew the 1905 model on Oct. 1, 2009, when it crashed during a practice flight for the re-enactment of a historic flight made by Wilbur Wright 104 years earlier at Huffman Prairie.
Orville Wright began training students on March 19, 1910, in Montgomery, Alabama, at a site that later became Maxwell Air Force Base.With the onset of milder weather that May, the school relocated to Huffman Prairie Flying Field near Dayton, Ohio, where the Wrights developed practical aviation in 1904 and 1905 and where the Wright Company tested its airplanes.
During this flight Orville circles Huffman Prairie two and a quarter times." [4] On January 18, 1905, the brothers wrote to congressman Robert M. Nevin, "The series of aeronautical experiments upon which we have been engaged for the past five years has ended in the production of a flying-machine of the type fitted for practical use. The ...
Wright Flyer III piloted by Orville over Huffman Prairie, October 4, 1905. Flight #46, covering 20 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles in 33 minutes 17 seconds; the last photographed flight of the year. Reporters showed up the next day (only their second appearance at the field since May the previous year), but the brothers declined to fly.
Wilbur Wright Field was established in 1917 [1] for World War I on 2,075 acres (840 ha) of land adjacent to the Mad River which included the 1910 Wright Brothers' Huffman Prairie Flying Field and that was leased to the Army by the Miami Conservancy District. [2]