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Article: Wright Aeroboat museum planned
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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More than a hundred years ago, while testing a Wright Aeroboat
over the Great Miami River in West Carrollton, pilot Orville Wright
narrowly escaped drowning when his aeroboat fell into the river from
an altitude of 30 feet after a wing broke.
The Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company tested close to 100
different versions of seaplanes in and out of the river in the area
of West Carrollton and Moraine in the early 1900s.
But the flight on Aug. 20, 1914, was the last flight for Orville
in an Aeroboat.
For a number of years, a group of Dayton historians has quietly
been working on a project to develop a new Wright Brothers Museum
and to recreate a full-size Model "G" Aeroboat along the Great ...