Am I the only one who finds it very humorous that Ohio has tried to link itself to the Wright Brothers and birthplace of aviation? On the license plates and quarters! ( I know where they were born)

What gives, Ohioans? Do you agree? I think there must be something other than this 'stretch' (lame) effort that Ohio could have celebrated on quarters or Bicentennial. Even a 'George Washington Slept Here' theme would have been better (well, maybe not..lol)

Seems to me that Kitty Hawk is the place linked to their efforts (although it was flown on Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk was the nearest telegraph and thus got the location) - not Ohio.


Anyone else think this is funny?

I think Ohio has every right to make their aviation claims. It's where the intellectual effort, development and construction took place. The only thing NC had going for it was wind. In addition, there's been a continuous (and major) aviation presence in Dayton--Wright-Patterson AFB and the USAF museum. NC has the monument (and park) at Kill Devil Hill, but I believe that was a federal effort.

I live in PA, by the way.

As a person who graduated from Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio I wonder why NC thinks they have any claims. We don't have any big sand dunes in Ohio. They had to test the plane somewhere. All the work was done in Ohio. We just didn't have the necessary geographical features to facilitate the test . Dayton is very flat you know. By the way I live in NC now & think it is hilarious that NC lays claim to the Wright Brothers.

John Glenn - enough said.

And not forgetting that Neil Armstrong added a step towards Ohio's placement in aviation history.

I think its funny how much time xxx11 has on his hands to worry about this.

Yea...John Glenn and Neil Armstrong just stolled down the road from where they were born and went to the Rocket Launch area near Cleveland (or is it Columbus?)

xxx11-Ohio does have a legitimate claim as Bookhall stated in the above post. IMO, it is ludicrous to even debate this. What is important is their contributions to history and to aviation.

Well, I guess I got what I asked for.

I'm not debating the facts. Sorry if I offended.

Not that it is bad, I simply thought that the state could have done something 'better' to showcase itself on the quarters (which will be around a Loooooooong time). Also, that Ohio coordinated the license plate and quarter with the same message.

Ohio is a great place.. I don't dispute that.

Now we have NC and Ohio with claims to the flight. I wonder if the western states will stake multiple claims to Lewis and Clark or Pony Express or Western migration.

We all know Missouri (show me state) and Illinois (land of Lincoln) from plates. I find it 'new' to think of Ohio as birthplace of aviation. So I stand corrected but still hold my opinion that it is "unusual" to link to aviation when the flights did not occur in Ohio.

xxx11-As to the logo on the Ohio quarter, the designs were put up on the Ohio website and the people of Ohio got to vote on which one they liked. The legislature then voted on it. It was not my choice either but hey in the grand scheme of things what does it matter.

I think doc above is right, you have too much time on your hands. Why don't you go do some volunteer work or something instead of worrying about state quarters and who can claim the Wright Brothers?

One more thing that helps establish Ohio's aviation savvy: the only newspaper to report on the Wright Brothers' success at Kitty Hawk was the Dayton Daily News. No other news reporting agency considered their achievement worth noting for months.

What a silly thing to obsess about. Many places boast about famous people who were born there. But in this case the "being born there" part is minimal. Not only were the Wright Brothers born in Ohio, but they spent their entire lives there. They did nearly all their work there, ran their bicycle shop there where they developed the airplane, and lived there until they died. Just because they went off somewhere for a more appropriate location to try out the plane is a pretty insignificant thing to even consider.

I think it was stupid. There are more things symbolic of Ohio than the WB.

For example?????