Flight to celebrate first air cargo delivery October 2, 1910

THE US National Aviation Heritage Alliance and the Wright B Flyer organisation are planning to recreate what is believed to be the first air cargo delivery flight that took over Ohio skies on October 2, 1910.

The commemorative flight will be operated with a replica aircraft from Wright-Patt to Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus.

The first 60-mile air cargo flight can be traced back to 1910 when the Wright brothers accepted an order from an Ohio businessman to deliver 200 pounds of silk cloth to a Columbus store. Operated by Phil Parmelee alone, a newly trained pilot for Wilbur and Orville Wright's airplane manufacturing company, the flight took off from Huffman Prairie Flying Field, near Dayton now part of Wright-Patt.

The Wrights charged the businessman US$5,000 for this consignment, which is equivalent to the freight charge of more than $120,000 now.
(Source:www.schednet.com)