Episode 77 - Huffman Prairie, OH

After the first flight at Kitty Hawk covered just 120 feet, barely under control, the Wright brothers needed somewhere closer to home to actually learn to fly. A Dayton banker let them use his cow pasture for free. Over 1904 and 1905, on that field, they turned a wobbly hop into a genuinely controllable airplane — many historians consider this, not Kitty Hawk, the real birth of practical flight. Their actual workshop ended up two hundred miles away in a Michigan museum. The field is still there.