WRIGHT MEMORIAL Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Wright Brothers Hill Photo courtesy of J. N. Parmalee

Wright Memorial Photo courtesy of J. N. Parmalee

"The Wright Memorial at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which is pictured above, is part of a 27-acre wooded park known as Wright Brothers Hill in Area B of Wright-Patterson. It is located atop the 100 foot bluff which overlooks Huffman Prairie and Simms Station. Dedicated August 19, 1940, the Memorial was conveyed to the U.S. Air Force on September 9, 1978." Editor's Note: This paragraph was found on the website of the WADC/WADD Digital Collection at the Galvin Library, IIT.

 

PIONEER FLYERS WHO TRAINED AT WRIGHT BROTHERS FIELD Photo courtesy of J. N. Parmalee

Editor's Note You will find 119 names listed below which have been reproduced from the plaque above. Those which are "clickable" are linked to the flyer's page on this site. To date, (10-27-02), I don't have any information on the others. If you can help with anything on their lives or careers, I would be happy to add it to a page for them.

ALEXANDER, J. M. ANDO, C. ARMOR, R. J. ARNOLD, Henry H. ATWOOD, Harry N. AULT, A. B. BEAL, W. E. BEASLEY, Percy E. BECKWITH, E. P. BERGDOLL, Grover C. BIBBY, J. R. BIXLER, John A. BONNEY, Leonard W. BOWERSOX, W. E. BREADNER, Lloyd S. BREADNER, George BRESSMAN, A. A. BREWER, Griffith BRIGGS, A. W. BRINDLEY, O. A. BROOKINS, Walter BRONSON, C. G. BROWN, Harold H. BROWN, L. E. BROWN, A. Roy CARTER, Verne CHANDLER, Charles DeF. CHISAM, W. H. COFFYN, Frank T. COOMBS, Maurice COUTURIER, C. CREERY, C. J. DANIELSON, O. A. DAY, C. L. Q. DOUGAN, Rose DREW, Andrew DUBUC, M. C. EDWARDS, S. T. EGGENA, Ferdinand ELTON, Albert

EVANS, H. B. FISH, Farnum T. FOWLER, Robert G. FREEMAN, Arch GADBOIS, Paul GAINES, JR., A. B. GALBRAITH, M. B. GALPIN, John GILL, Howard GORDON, James L. GRAY, George A. HARLAND, A. C. HARMAN, J. A. HARROWER, G. S. HENNING, J. C. HILLS, H. V. HOBBS, Basil D. HORNSBY, Mrs. Richberg HOXSEY, Arch IRELAND, J. G. JOHNSTONE, Ralph KABITZKE, William KITAMURA, Frank KLOCKLER, J. G. KENNEDY, P. S. LACHAPPELLE, Duval LAHM, Frank LEE, Robert E. LEWIS, B. B. MACDONALD, K. G. MAGOR, G. A. MAGOR, N. A. MCNICOLL, C. MCRAE, J. A. MERRILL, A. A. MILLING, Thomas DeW. MITCHELL, Louie MORO, Goroku NEIDIG, C. E.

NORMAN, L. E. ORCHARD, W. E. PAGE, Philip W. PARMELEE, P. O. PEMBERTON, P. B. PETERSON, C. J. PRIEST, R. M. RINEHART, Howard M. ROBINSON, W. E. RODGERS, John ROSS, Gordon F. SCHERMERHORN, M. SIMMONS, O. G. SIMPSON, George H. SAUNDERS, K. F. SCOTT, Lyle H. SHAW, A. SIMPSON, J. C. SMITH, Harley SOUTHARD, F. J. STEVENS, Wilfred STINSON, Edward A. STINSON, Marjorie SUSSAN, W. J. SWAN, Harry TERRELL, C. A. TURPIN, J. C. UTTER, C. E. WALD, Charles WATSON, J. C. WEBSTER, C. L. WEIR, Robert McC. WELSH, A. L. WHELAN, Bernard L. WHITING, Kenneth WILKINSON, T. C. WILKS, A. Y. WOODWARD, A. G. WORDEN, J. Hector WRIGHT, R. M.

 

VIDEO CLIP Contributed by Pete Jones, 9-7-08      Here's a video of Mark Dusenberry's 1905 Wright Flyer III replica built and studied to exact scale from the original 1905 airplane that Orville restored in the 1940s and is now on exhibit in Ohio. You gotta love Dr Crouch by the way: Huffman Prairie Video