"mike regish" wrote in message
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Only because they had nice soft sand dunes to crash on and high enough
winds
to take off in.

Are you saying that the Wright's presence in Dayton was any less
coincidental?

I don't see that Kitty Hawk's *or* Dayton's involvement were anything more
than an accident of history. But the fact of the matter is that the first
powered, controlled heavier-than-air flight occurred at Kitty Hawk, not
Dayton.

Where do you consider YOUR birthplace? Was it where your mother delivered
you? Or was it where you were conceived? Most people's birthplaces are
hospitals. Yes, that's because that's just due to the coincidental fact
that most babies are delivered by obstetricians, and OBs like to work in
hospitals. But that doesn't change the fact that the birthplace is the
hospital.

Aviation was conceived thousands of years ago, when the first human looked
at a bird and thought for the first time "hey, I wonder if there's a way for
me to do that". The Wright's oversaw the last bit of gestation of aviation
in Dayton (call it the last week of the last trimester if you like), but the
actual birth took place at Kitty Hawk with the culmination of thousands of
years of human progress, represented by that first flight.

Pete