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Ohios debut of its new license plate failed to take off because a banner depicted on the plate was attached to the wrong end of the Wright Brothers historic first plane, the Wright Flyer.
The new license plate illustrates rays of sunlight beaming into the sky, with a banner that reads Birthplace of Aviation draped across the horizon. But the banner, which should have been trailing behind the plane, was attached to its front.
After the unveiling, Ohio officials said in a statement that they were aware of the mishap and it would be corrected to show the banner trailing the plane before Ohioans upgrade their plates.
https://apnews.com/article/oddities-ohio-7529e8a5796c88b6b9a0dca290c4aa2b
wendyb-NC
(3,322 posts)back to the drawing board.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)"The Wright Brothers werent the first humans to fly. That honor might go to men such as Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier who flew the first manned free balloon flight in 1783. Neither were they the first to fly a manned, powered, heavier-than-air craft. Clément Ader accomplished this over a decade before the events at Kitty Hawk, flying his steam-powered contraption 160 feet in 1890. Many even argue the Wright Brothers werent even the first to fly a manned, powered, heavier-than-air craft that could be sustained and controlled. Men like Augustus Moore Herring, John J. Montgomery, and very possibly Gustave Whitehead flew machines that may have technically qualified to meet this description all prior to Kitty Hawk. And this is not even to mention that Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first man to fly such a craft capable of taking off under its own power, which he did three years after Kitty Hawk."
( from: http://www.birthofaviation.org/first-human-flying-machines/ - not really a citation, just a nice summary paragraph source )
Not to mention that fully controlled gliders had been flown for 50 years prior to 1903, starting in 1852 in the UK; gliders are very much part of "aviation".
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)1. Official birthplace of aviation
In 2003, Congress officially declared Ohio as the birthplace of aviation over North Carolina, because Dayton was the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright, who were credited in inventing and flying the first aircraft.
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/reasons-why-ohio-will-always-the-state-aviation/7BcTSFs7o2yEgJLreEiDHO/
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)1. Because Congress said so
2. 23 Astronauts
3. One Astronaut of the 23
4. A museum
5. An air force base
...last time I checked that's not what "birthplace" means?
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Thank you for your input.
All comments are welcome.
Rhiannon12866
(205,237 posts)bobalew
(321 posts)Being a 2nd cousin of the Wright Brothers, but I'm not telling...
Wright Flyers had pusher props and what would now be called canard elevators.
bobalew
(321 posts)Being a 2nd cousin of the Wright Brothers, but I'm not telling...
dchill
(38,472 posts)yonder
(9,663 posts)of that plane, unlike modern aircraft. That would make the top one correct.
Now I have to look it up.
Edit: reply to #5
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)yonder
(9,663 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Red Skelton talking about a drunk pulling a rope.....
Why are you pulling that rope?
(slurring)... Ever try to push one?
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)...from all eras, assures me that the plane and trailing banner are depicted correctly, as already attested to by a couple of the above posts.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Who knew?
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)eom
jmowreader
(50,555 posts)The original Ohio plate is the one on the bottom. The one they are going to issue is at the top of this post.
BTW, for those talking about the "birthplace of aviation" thing...the Wrights' shop was indeed in Dayton. One of the fields they flew from when they started flying in Ohio rather than NC is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.