Happy Birthday, College Park
Credit: HUMPHREYS COLLECTION
As part of a U.S. Army contract, Wilbur Wright erected a temporary hangar on a field near the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, in College Park, and there trained the first two military aviators to pilot an airplane supplied by him and his brother, Orville. The year was...
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