Took a trip up to Dayton, Where they claim to invented almost everything from crash registers to car ignition systems. But the biggest plaudits in the town go to brothers Wilbur and Orville Wight, who in the farms around Dayton developed powered flight.

It may have been at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina that they achieved the first flight in 1903, but in was around Dayton, over the next four years, that they developed their machine and produced a controllable steerable flying machine. No mean achievement for a couple of bicycle mechanics.

The field where they finessed their invention is now home to the American Airforce, but a memorial stands on the hill from where you can watch giant troop carriers descend from the skies. They had no idea what they had started.
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