{"id":2996,"date":"2016-09-19T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2016-09-19T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:54:18","slug":"for-the-love-of-aviation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2016\/09\/19\/for-the-love-of-aviation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"For the love of aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"

In their hometown of Dayton, Ohio, the Wright brothers made aviation history and forever changed our world.\u00a0Their ingenuity allowed for\u00a0aviation to begin and advance; and has since impacted many facets of life including travel, commerce, war and communication. The Wright brothers legacy is still very much celebrated and preserved in Dayton by the Wright \u201cB\u201d Flyer Inc.<\/a>\u00a0organization.<\/p>\n

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Wright \u201cB\u201d Flyer Inc.<\/a> is an all-volunteer, membership-based, not-for-profit corporation\u00a0located in the Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport. The organization supports and promotes the history of aviation\u00a0by providing the public with a very unique experience: the thrill of pioneer flight in a model of the first production airplane; a modernized version of the Model B flyer that the\u00a0Wright Brothers first manufactured in 1911.\u00a0This version of the Model B flyer, N3786B “Brown Bird,” has flown or and been displayed across the United States and abroad. It is a one-of-a-kind aircraft designed and built by volunteers to have a standoff resemblance to a Wright aircraft but meet modern airworthiness standards.<\/p>\n

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The “Brown Bird” is now over thirty years old and the volunteers of the\u00a0Wright \u201cB\u201d Flyer Inc.<\/a>\u00a0are in the process of raising money to help with the cost of construction for a\u00a0replacement aircraft. The group has established a\u00a0gofundme page<\/a>\u00a0where they can accept donations and a\u00a0generous benefactor has pledged a matching donation of $50,000 if the fundraising goal is met. They\u00a0plan to complete construction of the new aircraft in the original Wright Airplane Company hangar where the Wright Brothers originally produced their very first Model B.<\/p>\n

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While celebrating the outstanding performance of the Envoy and American Customer Services teams at the\u00a0Dayton International Airport (DAY), we were able to grab a photo with the Wright B Flyer\u00a0look-alike aircraft.<\/h5>\n

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To learn more about the\u00a0“Brown Bird”, check out\u00a0this informational video<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0Wright “B” Flyer YouTube channel<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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In their hometown of Dayton, Ohio, the Wright brothers made aviation history and forever changed our world.\u00a0Their ingenuity allowed for\u00a0aviation to begin and advance; and has since impacted many facets of life including travel, commerce, war and communication. The Wright brothers legacy is still very much celebrated and preserved in Dayton by the Wright \u201cB\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":42340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[66,72,73,51,68,74,75,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}