"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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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.


Wilbur Wright was born in Indiana. If Bishop Wright hadn't moved the
family
to Dayton, where Orville was born, Ohio would have needed a different
license plate slogan.

And if Bishop Wright hadn't left that god forsaken part of IN we would be
driving automobiles to all those pancake breakfasts. I doubt rural IN
would have sparked the aviation interest in the two brothers or provided the
resources as did urban Dayton. Lotsa _ifs_ surrounding the entire first
flight.