Orville owned an island vacation home, where he would vacation in the summers, on Lambert Island in Georgian Bay Ontario, Canada. General Henry (Hap) Arnold learned to fly at the Wright School of ...

History buffs knows General Henry "Hap" Arnold as the general ... hope the ceremony will rekindle interest in Arnold, whose career spans from the Wright Brothers to supersonic jets.

Cliff Turpin played an amazing role in the history of flight. Orville Wright taught him to fly. Turpin, in turn, taught "Hap" Arnold to fly. And Gen. Arnold is considered the 'father' of our modern ...

Arnold was a major at the time he moved into the home and learned how to fly from Orville Wright while living there. Arnold resided in the house between the years of 1921 and 1931. Since then ...

Aviation pioneer Henry “Hap” Arnold (above ... from the two men who started it all. “Arnold went out to Dayton, Ohio, and learned to fly from the Wright brothers,” Spencer says.

Orville Wright is at the controls, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle, which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright, running alongside to balance the machine ...

If any one man could be said to personify the U.S. Air Force, General Henry Harley (“Hap”) Arnold was that man. He attended its birth, grew up with it, commanded it all through its great years ...

as well as the original 1911 certificate showing that Hap was one of the first two military airmen certified to fly, having trained under the Wright Brothers in 1907. Arnold said although he is ...

Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright began testing out flying in 1899, while Samuel Langley of the Smithsonian did the same, according to the National Park Service (NPS). Langley’s attempts were ...

Named for Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the first successful airplane and Dayton, OH residents, Wright State University is a leading research institution in the Wright brothers’ hometown.