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Up... Up… And Away! The Mission Inn, Riverside, and Aviation History

Up... Up… And Away! The Mission Inn, Riverside, and Aviation History. December 17, 1903 First Powered Flight Orville and Wilbur Wright. *Telegram image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Orville and Wilbur Wright’s original patent for their “flying machine,” 1903. .

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Up... Up… And Away! The Mission Inn, Riverside, and Aviation History

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  1. Up... Up… And Away! The Mission Inn, Riverside, and Aviation History

  2. December 17, 1903First Powered Flight Orville and Wilbur Wright *Telegram image courtesy of the Library of Congress

  3. Orville and Wilbur Wright’s original patent for their “flying machine,” 1903. *Image courtesy of the Library of Congress

  4. A postcard from Wilbur to his brother, Orville, 1908. What do you think Wilbur meant in his note to his brother? “I’ll tie a string to you next time to keep you from going too high or too far. Its too much trouble to break your records.” ~Will *Image courtesy of the Library of Congress

  5. Frank Miller, the founder of Riverside’s Mission Inn Hotel, helped bring March Field to Riverside in 1918. Have you ever visited march air force base?

  6. Planes flying over March Field with a map of the area Circa 1930 Historic March Field Circa 1930

  7. Military Training Planes, 1935 Military training planes, 1937

  8. Frank Miller’s daughter and son-in-law (DeWitt and Allis Hutchings) were very interested in flight, and they created the Mission Inn Fliers’ Wall. above: Dewitt Hutchings with a very famous pilot. Can you name this famous pilot?

  9. Mission Inn Fliers Wall Present day Eddie Rickenbacker adding his wings to the Fliers Wall in 1942

  10. Amelia EarharT had her wings added to the fliers wall in 1936

  11. Some famous aviators that have wings on the Fliers Wall Charles Lindbergh 1994 Buzz aldrin 2009 The Tuskegee Airmen 2o12

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