Chanute, Kansas: Chanute-Wright Brothers Memorial
A giant weather vane with the Wright Flyer on one end pays tribute to town namesake Octave Chanute, whose experimental gliders inspired the Wright Brothers' to build the first flyable airplane.
- Address:
- 5 W. Main St., Chanute, KS
- Directions:
- Downtown, on the south side of Main St., jut east of S. Grant Ave. and the train tracks.
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A memorial in a small park in Chanute commemorates the role that the town's namesake -- engineer and aviation pioneer Octave Chanute -- played in the Wright Brother's invention of the airplane. The memorial consists of a large metal model of the Wright's first airplane supported on a giant arm that pivots as a weathervane to face into the prevailing wind. Metal figures representing the people present at the Wright's first flight surround the memorial. The plane's propellors spin in the wind.
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