{"id":48257,"date":"2017-10-02T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=48257"},"modified":"2017-10-02T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:28:00","slug":"us-news-story-ohio-college-celebrates-wright-brothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/10\/02\/us-news-story-ohio-college-celebrates-wright-brothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"US News story: Ohio College Celebrates Wright Brothers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11162\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11162\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11162\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/02\/Wright-brothers-day-2-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Amanda Wright Lane with Wright brothers reenactors.\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Wright Lane (at right), great-grandniece of the Wright brothers, at Wright State&#8217;s Wright Brothers Day celebration with\u00a0Tom Benson and Roger Storm of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, impersonating Wilbur and Orville Wright.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) \u2014 An\u00a0Ohio\u00a0university will celebrate the innovative spirit of its namesake aviation pioneers this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Wright State University on Thursday will mark the 112th anniversary of the Wright brothers&#8217; record 39-minute flight in 1905 on what is now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>That flight at Huffman Prairie helped the brothers prove they had a marketable and practical airplane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>The brothers operated a bicycle shop in Dayton. They first flew at Kitty Hawk,\u00a0North Carolina, in December 1903.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Wright Brothers Day will feature re-enactors and the school will host innovators displaying their current projects. Technology displays will include a robot and an unmanned air vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Also planned\u00a0are displays from the Wright State Special Collections and Archives.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original post at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/ohio\/articles\/2017-10-01\/ohio-college-celebrates-wright-brothers-day\">usnews.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) \u2014 An\u00a0Ohio\u00a0university will celebrate the innovative spirit of its namesake aviation pioneers this week. Wright State University on Thursday will mark the 112th anniversary of the Wright brothers&#8217; record 39-minute flight in 1905 on what is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/10\/02\/us-news-story-ohio-college-celebrates-wright-brothers-day\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":48021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48259,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48257\/revisions\/48259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}