Feng moved to the United States at the age of twelve , living and working in various parts of California before trying to settle in San Francisco in 1906 , the year that the San Francisco earthquake struck . The earthquake spoiled his plan and sent him fleeing to Oakland . Fung was fascinated by the Wright Brothers ' plane and because he was always interested in machinery , one of the first things he did after arriving in Oakland was to organize an airplane manufacturing company , only a few years after the Wright Brothers ' Kitty Hawk flight
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
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