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Bookmark or Share- Pieces of Dayton that most wont remember.Speaking about airplane crashes, I was in school at Beavercreek High when the Canberra bomber broke up and a huge chunk of it crashed between the 2 wings of the high school without hitting anything. Another memory I have that I can't seem to find others remembering is that we boated and water skiied a LOT at Triangle Park from the Keowee bridge ...
- Airplane at School Playground - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKSFor some reason I was thinking it was down closer to the Burkhart/Findlay area, but that may be an old playground airplane-like jungle gym memory creeping in. In any case, I'm thinking it was the F-84 with the straight wing rather than the swept wing F-86, but I'm sure it had the front air intake.
- The Bug - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS“It was a complete little airplane built of papier-mache and reinforced with wooden members, its smooth cardboard wing surfaces spreading lass than 12 feet. Ford Built Engine “Its fuselage held 300 pounds of explosives and it weighed, unloaded, 300 pounds itself.
- A Close Tie - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKSIt was during World War I, Mr. Allyn recalls in his book, “My Half Century With NCR,” that the Company produced airplane parts and the Colt Automatic Pistol. Five “E” Awards In World War II, NCR carried on a number of major projects in the war effort, and received five Army-Navy “E” awards.
- The Wright Flyer - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKSThis is the airplane in which the Wright brothers themselves always said they really learned to fly. Some aviation authorities consider it to be an even more valuable relic than the Wright’s first powered aircraft. The Wrights made their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 1903.
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