Ewing

Summerland Public School serves students from the Ewing, Clearwater, and Brunswick area communities in Nebraska.

The Savidge Brothers, Aviation Pioneers

Near here was the scene of some of Nebraska’s earliest experiments with flight in a heavier-than-air vehicle. Sometime before late 1907, Martin P. Savidge’s sons set out to construct a flying machine.

They began by studying hawks, then went on to build model gliders, then full size gliders, and finally a self-powered airplane. The first public demonstration was successfully held on Sunday, May 7, 1911.