What is Aviation Maintenance Technician Day?
Aviation Maintenance Technician Day, May 24th, honors the men and women who have served behind the scenes in creating and maintaining aviation.
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We all know the tale of Orville and Wilbur Wright, Kitty Hawk, and the human flight experiment. But how many of us recognize Charles Edward Taylor's name? He came to work with the Wrights in 1902, just as the science progressed to powered flight. The automobile manufacturers couldn't find an engine that was both light enough and robust enough for flight.
Enter Taylor. He built the 12-horsepower engine, which propelled the Wright's aeroplane 20 feet above the wind-swept North Carolina beach, and was a craftsman by trade, with a metal lathe, drill press, and other hand tools. The longest flight took place 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. Taylor took six weeks to build the engine, but history books seldom mention the man who made the historic December 17, 1903, flight possible.
