Cow Pasture to Flight School

After their success at Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers returned to Dayton seeking a flying field closer to home and relocated to the rough pasture of Torrence Huffman's farm in the valley below. In 1904-05, flying 40 feet high over Huffman Prairie Flying Field, they solved the complex problems of controlling a machine in powered flight: how to turn, bank, launch, and land.

Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio · United States