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 on a daily basis.
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We all know Orville and Wilbur Wright, Kitty Hawk, and the human flight experiment. How many of us recognize Charles Edward Taylor's name? In 1902, he began to work for the Wrights, when the first flights were converted to powered flight. The automobile companies were unable to produce an engine that was both light enough and robust enough for flight.
Enter Taylor. He designed the 12-horsepower engine, which propelled 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. For a distance of 852 feet, the longest flight took 59 seconds. It took Taylor six weeks to build the engine, but history books seldom mention the man who made the historic December 17, 1903, flight possible.
