The best kept secret in the State of Alabama these days is the Airbus announcement expected to come on Monday, 2 July at 10a local time, that they will open their first aircraft manufacturing plant in Mobile, Alabama. Mobile already hosts the Airbus North America engineering center. Back in the days when Airbus and Boeing… Continue reading Airbus: Uncle Sam, here we come!
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Author of book on Wright Brothers' flight school will speak also at YOUR event
Everyone knows the Wright Brothers spent some quality time in North Carolina and Ohio. But few people know they spent an important semester in Alabama. In 1910, Wilbur came South, looking for a place to start the nation’s first civilian flying school. In January of 1910, the Wrights’ patents had grounded all airplanes in the… Continue reading Author of book on Wright Brothers' flight school will speak also at YOUR event
Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910
By Julie Hedgepeth Williams Publisher: NewSouth Books ISBN-13: 978-1588381682 When stepping aboard an aircraft these days, few passengers spare a thought to the many visionary people who have made the wonder of safe and affordable air travel possible. Even giants like Orville and Wilbur Wright are fading in people’s memories. Stretching the matter a bit… Continue reading Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910
Anniversary – First US flight school, established by the Wright brothers, opens
100 year anniversary on 15 February 2010 Seven years after their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, Wilbur Wright was scouting locations suitable for a flight school. The idea was to train a number of pilots who could in turn teach flying to the wealthy individuals who were expected to buy the airplanes… Continue reading Anniversary – First US flight school, established by the Wright brothers, opens