Wright “B” Flyer over Ft. Sam Houston
Wright “B” Flyer Inc. volunteer pilots Rich Stepler and Don Stroud performed a demonstration flight of their “Brown Bird” over Ft. Sam Houston’s MacArthur Parade Ground during the Centennial of Military Aviation event on March 2, 2010. Designed to look like a Wright “B” Flyer that was made of wood, cloth, cables and a Ford Model A engine, the Wright “B” Modified Flyer (seen) is metal framed with a modern Lycoming turbocharged engine and essential instrumentation and communication gear for regular test flights. Donated funds from the Daedalian Foundation paid for the shipping of this and it’s sister replica Wright “B” Flyer called “Yellow Bird (on parade ground below to the left) to San Antonio for the flyover, (U.S. Air Force photos/Lance Cheung)
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On Jan. 16, 2009 a group of Arabs stood in front of the Houston Holocaust Museum carrying signs claiming genocide was happening in the middle East. Many Houstonian counter-protesters were upset and felt the protesters were trivializing a major historic event.
I stopped by the KPRC Local 2 studios to talk about Children’s Museum of Houston summer happenings during a live interview.