(Stripes Okinawa)
Even before the Wright Brothers’ successful flight in 1903, an Okinawan had already gone airborne. Tobiasato, legend and pyrotechnician, invented an aircraft sometime around 1780. The aircraft was a glider and Tobiasato flew off a hill in Haebaru Town reaching a distance of 150 to 200 meters. A replica of the aircraft is exhibited in the town’s municipality office.
Tatsu/ritsu (stand) (Stripes Okinawa)
