Ohio mangles license plate

[left-of-center2012]

Ohio’s debut of its new license plate failed to take off — because a banner depicted on the plate was attached to the wrong end of the Wright Brothers’ historic first plane, the Wright Flyer.

The new license plate illustrates rays of sunlight beaming into the sky, with a banner that reads “Birthplace of Aviation” draped across the horizon. But the banner, which should have been trailing behind the plane, was attached to its front.

After the unveiling, Ohio officials said in a statement that they were aware of the mishap and it would be corrected to show the banner trailing the plane before Ohioans upgrade their plates.

https://apnews.com/article/oddities-ohio-7529e8a5796c88b6b9a0dca290c4aa2b

[wendyb-NC]

1. Oh Oh

back to the drawing board.

[rickyhall]

2. Proofreading: A Lost Art

[NullTuples]

3. Not to mention "aviation" wasn't born in Ohio

"The Wright Brothers weren’t the first humans to fly. That honor might go to men such as Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier who flew the first manned free balloon flight in 1783. Neither were they the first to fly a “manned, powered, heavier-than-air craft”. Clément Ader accomplished this over a decade before the events at Kitty Hawk, flying his steam-powered contraption 160 feet in 1890. Many even argue the Wright Brothers weren’t even the first to fly a “manned, powered, heavier-than-air craft that could be sustained and controlled”. Men like Augustus Moore Herring, John J. Montgomery, and very possibly Gustave Whitehead flew machines that may have technically qualified to meet this description all prior to Kitty Hawk. And this is not even to mention that Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first man to fly such a craft capable of “taking off under its own power”, which he did three years after Kitty Hawk."
( from: http://www.birthofaviation.org/first-human-flying-machines/ - not really a citation, just a nice summary paragraph source )

Not to mention that fully controlled gliders had been flown for 50 years prior to 1903, starting in 1852 in the UK; gliders are very much part of "aviation".

[SheltieLover]

6. +1

[left-of-center2012]

7. 5 reasons why Ohio will always be the state of aviation

1. Official birthplace of aviation

In 2003, Congress officially declared Ohio as the “birthplace of aviation” over North Carolina, because Dayton was the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright, who were credited in inventing and flying the first aircraft.

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/reasons-why-ohio-will-always-the-state-aviation/7BcTSFs7o2yEgJLreEiDHO/

[NullTuples]

14. wow that was...not at all convincing?

1. Because Congress said so
2. 23 Astronauts
3. One Astronaut of the 23
4. A museum
5. An air force base

...last time I checked that's not what "birthplace" means?

[left-of-center2012]

16. Okie dokie smokey

Thank you for your input.
All comments are welcome.

[Rhiannon12866]

18. That was my first thought! My grandmother lived in NC, so I remember the "First in Flight" plates:

[bobalew]

4. OK, History Buffs, which is the CORRECT depiction, top or Bottom?

Being a 2nd cousin of the Wright Brothers, but I'm not telling...

[jmowreader]

20. Top

Wright Flyers had pusher props and what would now be called canard elevators.

[bobalew]

5. OK, History Buffs, which is the CORRECT depiction, top or bottom?

Being a 2nd cousin of the Wright Brothers, but I'm not telling...

[dchill]

8. Bottom. Take my word for it.

[yonder]

9. I always thought the elevators were at the front

of that plane, unlike modern aircraft. That would make the top one correct.

Now I have to look it up.

Edit: reply to #5

[left-of-center2012]

10. This ?

[yonder]

11. Yep.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Red Skelton talking about a drunk pulling a rope.....

Red Skelton talking about a drunk pulling a rope.....

Why are you pulling that rope?

(slurring)... Ever try to push one?

[3catwoman3]

13. My retired pilot husband, who is also an aviation history buff, and builder of model aircraft...

...from all eras, assures me that the plane and trailing banner are depicted correctly, as already attested to by a couple of the above posts.

[left-of-center2012]

15. So a plane can push a banner?

Who knew?

[3catwoman3]

17. See the photo in post #10.

eom

[jmowreader]

19. The photos here are reversed

The original Ohio plate is the one on the bottom. The one they are going to issue is at the top of this post.

BTW, for those talking about the "birthplace of aviation" thing...the Wrights' shop was indeed in Dayton. One of the fields they flew from when they started flying in Ohio rather than NC is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.