As a young man, I worked at the machine shop / foundry that cast that aluminum engine block. The only place the Wright Brothers could find with the expertise to do such a casting. Alas, Buckeye Iron & Brass was just another of the places taken down be a union. They could not survive two strikes in
a period of just 3 - 4 years.
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