Dan Aldridge

A semi-retired business consultant, Dan Aldridge is the author of To Lasso the Clouds: The Beginning of Aviation in Georgia (Mercer University Press, 2016).

Ben Epps stands with the Epps-Huff II, long thought to be Georgia’s first airplane. It never flew. The handwriting suggests 1907 as the year aviation began in Georgia.

The Birth of Flight in Georgia

Georgians are justly proud of the day Ben Epps first flew his airplane. But for 100 years, they’ve been proud of the wrong day.

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