With great pomp and circumstance, Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine unveiled a new license plate for the state. It immediately became the subject of ridicule and derision, per the Associated Press.
The new plate honors the state as the home of the Wright Brothers, roundly regarded as the inventors of powered, fixed-wing flight. And while the Wright Brothers performed their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Ohio has claimed the title, “Birthplace of Aviation.”
The Ohio plate depicts the Wrights’ first plane, the Kitty Hawk Flyer, soaring through the sky…. apparently in reverse.
You see, the Kitty Hawk Flyer depicted on the plate has a banner fluttering in the air attached to the aircraft. The Kitty Hawk Flyer had the large “lift” wings at the back of the plane and the control surfaces on the front of the plane, reverse of the conventional modern airplane design.
So either the laws of physics don’t apply in the Buckeye State, or no one in the state’s Department of Transportation cared to do research.