LAST YEAR, Palmer Wood visited the hangar and mini-museum of acquaintance Brian Coughlin, a vintage aircraft collector in Cazenovia, New York. Wood gave Coughlin a V-shaped piece of wood with a metal fitting that Wood believed to be a part of the Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer. "Palmer told me the story of his father and uncles, who summered near the Wrights' old hangar" in North Carolina, says Coughlin. "The boys raided the collapsed shed and took souvenirs. Most of the parts were returned to Orville but this piece lay forgotten in a trunk for decades.
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