Wright brothers the replica kill two 1910 aircraft accidents

published: 2011-07-31 00:57:39 Aviation technology has grown by leaps and bounds since Orville and Wilbur Wright soared into the sky for the first time in North Carolina in 1903, but that doesn’t mean some people don’t prefer the way things used to be. There’s an entire subculture of flight enthusiasts who get their kicks flying replica planes. Unfortunately, two of those throwbacks met a tragic fate Saturday morning in Ohio. Piloting a replica of a Wright Brothers 1910 aircraft, Don Gum and Mitchell Cary lost control and crashed into a desolate field just outside Springfield. Both were pronounced dead at the scene, and an…