Louise Hose
Well Known Member
As I walked around Huffman Flying Field last weekend (http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=31338), one sign particularly caught my fancy and reminded me of the recent and very touching Fathers Day posts and video (http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=30901). Seems that sons taking their dads for a flight is almost as old as powered aviation!
Father and Son at 395 feet
On May 25, 1910, two brothers brought their 81-year-old father here for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Wrights had been flying for six-and-a-half years and had full confidence in their skills and their flying machines.?
Late that afternoon?..Wilber took a seat on?the wing next to his brother. It was the only time they would fly together. Something they had promised their father they would never do. Just this once, he had relented.
Then it was (their father?s) turn?.he?d climbed up next to his youngest son for the first time?.At one point during the flight, Milton leaned close to his son?s ear and shouted above the?roar of the engine, propellers, and slipstream, ?Higher, Orville, higher!?
Wright biographer Tom Crouch
I know, I should have cleaned off the sign first. Sorry.
Elsewhere during the visit, I learned that mother Susan Wright was the parent who tinkered and created innovations in the Wright family, not father Milton. Makes one wonder if Susan would have been the first woman (or even first non-pilot passenger) in a powered aircraft if she had lived until May 1910.
Father and Son at 395 feet
On May 25, 1910, two brothers brought their 81-year-old father here for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Wrights had been flying for six-and-a-half years and had full confidence in their skills and their flying machines.?
Late that afternoon?..Wilber took a seat on?the wing next to his brother. It was the only time they would fly together. Something they had promised their father they would never do. Just this once, he had relented.
Then it was (their father?s) turn?.he?d climbed up next to his youngest son for the first time?.At one point during the flight, Milton leaned close to his son?s ear and shouted above the?roar of the engine, propellers, and slipstream, ?Higher, Orville, higher!?
Wright biographer Tom Crouch
I know, I should have cleaned off the sign first. Sorry.
Elsewhere during the visit, I learned that mother Susan Wright was the parent who tinkered and created innovations in the Wright family, not father Milton. Makes one wonder if Susan would have been the first woman (or even first non-pilot passenger) in a powered aircraft if she had lived until May 1910.
