Charles Taylor was a self-taught mechanic who hand-built the first airplane engine after many automakers rejected the Wright Brothers' requests to build one for them.
The San Diego-based Aircraft Maintenance Technicians Association raised $6,000 to have the bronze bust made and displayed at the museum.Founder of the association, Ken MacTiernan, said, "Charlie was a very humble person, never sought the limelight and over history, history kind of forgot the men and women behind the scenes who maintained the aircraft.
Besides the engine on that famous plane, Charles Taylor was also the first airport manager, beginning at Dayton's Huffman Prairie where the Wright brothers perfected controlled flight. He also was the first mechanic of a cross-country flight and the 49-day flight from New York to Los Angeles in 1911.
Someone I Had Never Heard of before. --Cooter
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Wright Brothers Mechanic Honored-- Part 1
From the July 22, 2014, Goldsboro (NC) News-Argus. AP.
CHARLES TAYLOR created the engine that made historic flight.
And, a guy most, including myself, have never heard of before. Without him, no amount of Wright designing would have resulted in that historic flight.
DAYTON, OHIO. "The man who built the engine for Orville and Wilbur Wright's first powered flight has finally gotten his due."
Charles Taylor, a mechanic in the Wright brothers' bicycle shop in Dayton, built the engine that took them on the flight at Kitty Hawk, NC, on December 17, 1903.
On Monday, a bronze bust of Mr. Taylor was unveiled at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton. I went right by the place yesterday in my trip to North Carolina.
Something Else to See at the Museum. --Cooter
CHARLES TAYLOR created the engine that made historic flight.
And, a guy most, including myself, have never heard of before. Without him, no amount of Wright designing would have resulted in that historic flight.
DAYTON, OHIO. "The man who built the engine for Orville and Wilbur Wright's first powered flight has finally gotten his due."
Charles Taylor, a mechanic in the Wright brothers' bicycle shop in Dayton, built the engine that took them on the flight at Kitty Hawk, NC, on December 17, 1903.
On Monday, a bronze bust of Mr. Taylor was unveiled at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton. I went right by the place yesterday in my trip to North Carolina.
Something Else to See at the Museum. --Cooter
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