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Huffman Prairie, also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage Huffman Prairie Flying Field National Historical Park. The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of U.S. National Register of Historic Places rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place U.S. National Historic Landmark where the (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the difficult and sometimes dangerous task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots. Many early aircraft records were set by the Wrights at the Huffman Prairie.

The Wrights began using Huffman Prairie in 1904 with the permission of the field's owner, Dayton banker Torrence Orville Wright in flight over Huffman Prairie, Huffman. Its location along an interurban rail line from the approximately 1,760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds, brothers' hometown of Dayton provided them with easy access. Nov. 16, 1904 The Wrights made about 150 flights at the field in 1904–1905, leading to development of the 1905 III, which they considered to be the first practical airplane. This aircraft has been restored, and is now displayed at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton.

In 1910, the placed its testing operations at Huffman Prairie Flying Field; the Wright Company also operated its Wright Flying School on the site. Through the Flying School, the Wright Company trained more than a hundred pilots, including the aviators for the Wright Exhibition Team and early military aviators, including Henry H. "Hap" Arnold and Thomas DeWitt Milling. The United States Army Signal Corps purchased the field in 1917 and renamed it, along with 2,000 adjacent acres (8 km²), . In 1948 the area was merged with nearby Patterson Field to become Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Nearest city Fairborn, Ohio Coordinates 39°48!12"N The National Park Service currently operates this historic site 84°3!57"W where visitors may see the place where the Wrights developed the world’s first practical airplane as well as replicas of their 1905 Built 1904 hangar and launching catapult. While the historic flying field is Governing body United States Air Force mowed short, simulating the grazed pasture used by the Wrights NRHP Reference # 71000640 and allowing its use for re-enactment flights, an adjacent area of Significant dates tall-grass prairie is maintained unmowed, managed instead using Added to NRHP May 6, 1971[1] late-season controlled burns.[3] A nature trail winds among the prairie's tall grasses, diverse wildflowers, and occasional Designated NHL June 21, 1990[2] shrubs.[4] The Huffman Prairie area is located within the Air Force Base, with a separate entrance and fencing between it and an adjacent runway and other modern base facilities.

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The associated Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the flying field near the Wright Memorial, on a hilltop overlooking Huffman Prairie and other parts of the Air Force Base. This facility addresses the specific problems Orville and Wilbur Wright encountered while they were perfecting their flying machine, their first demonstration flights in the United States and in Europe, their exhibition team, and their manufacturing facility in Dayton, Ohio. The center also highlights the continuing legacy of Orville and Wilbur Wright as embodied in the development of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the continuing aeronautical research at this Air Force facility. Huffman Prairie Flying Field was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1990, and added to the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List as part of the Dayton Aviation Sites listing in 2008.[2][5] In 1986, 109 acres (44 ha) of the natural portion of the Huffman Prairie was designated as an Ohio Natural Area.[4] It is a component of the National Aviation Heritage Area.[6]

The Dayton indie rock band Guided by Voices has a song called "Huffman Prairie Flying Field" on their 2004 album Half Smiles of the Decomposed.

Reproduction of the Wright Big bluestem (Andropogon Wright Memorial, on a brothers' 1905 hangar and gerardii), a characteristic hilltop overlooking the catapult at the Huffman grass of tall-grass prairie Huffman Prairie Prairie

Sign at the National Park Service visitor center near Huffman Prairie

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References

1. ^ "National Register Information System" (http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html). National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. 2. ^ a b "Huffman Prairie Flying Field" (http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1131&ResourceType=Site). National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved June 13, 2008. 3. ^ "Base to conduct controlled burn of Huffman Prairie" (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123175303). Inside WPAFB: News. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Retrieved October 18, 2011. 4. ^ a b "Ohio's Prairies: Native Grasslands" (http://www.epa.state.oh.us/LinkClick.aspx? fileticket=tHYrATUIYvE%3D&tabid=2236). Audubon Adventures: Ohio. National Audubon Society. Retrieved October 18, 2011. 5. ^ ____ (___, 19__). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Huffman Prairie Flying Field ___ (http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/71000640.pdf) PDF (32 KB). National Park Service. and Accompanying __ photos, exterior and interior, from 19__ (http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/71000640.pdf) PDF (32 KB) 6. ^ "Home of the Wright Brothers" (http://www.aviationheritagearea.org/). National Aviation Heritage Area. Retrieved March 16, 2012.

External links

National Park Service Huffman Prairie site (http://www.nps.gov/daav/pla_fac_huffmanprairie.htm) Dayton Aviation Heritage NHP – Huffman Prairie (http://www.nps.gov/archive/daav/pla_fac_huffmanprairie.htm) 2008 U.S. World Heritage Tentative List (http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/worldheritage/TL_List.doc) The short film "Wright Brothers On Huffman Prairie (March 7, 1988)" (https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.604273) is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]

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