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Celebrate National Aviation Day with the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart
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Portrait of Amelia Earhart.
National Aviation Day is going to be celebrated on Wednesday, August 19, which makes it a great time to celebrate some of the pioneers of flight at historic sites around the United States. The day, which was first observed in 1939, coincides with the birthday of Orville Wright, one of the pioneering Wright brothers who built and flew the world’s first airplane.
There are numerous locations that commemorate the achievement of the Wright brothers, and other destinations that celebrate the lives of such aviation pioneers as Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. Here are some interesting places to visit if you’d like to pay tribute to some of aviation’s earliest and most famous pioneers:
Wright Brothers National Memorial, North Carolina
The Wright Brothers National Memorial is at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (not far from Cape Hatteras National Seashore), where the first airplane flew for 12 seconds and 120 feet on December 17, 1903. You can stand on the spot where that plane lifted off from the ground, learn about the Wright brothers through exhibits and movies, and see replicas of their plane and of the wind tunnel that was used for experiments.
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Ohio
The Wright brothers are also celebrated at the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. Tourists can see one of the Wrights’ airplanes, the bicycle shop and print shop that they owned, the field where they taught themselves to fly, and a visitors center with exhibits about the brothers and their aviation experiments. The Dayton National Aviation Heritage Area is on the tentative list for possible consideration as a future World Heritage Site.
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