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... aviation and rocketry. The key people in this story are highlighted - and are given “The Wright Stuff” Awards - for their contribution. Many of them are surprising, in that they would not ... by artists, regulators, politicians and some of the earliest aviators - all of whom had “The Wright Stuff”.Image:9781926592176.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeespacebooks.com/Books ...

... . General Curtis E. LeMay , USAF Chief of Staff, said in address to Wright Memorial Dinner: ". . . When Orville and Wilbur Wright made their historic flights, 60 years ago, little did they know that their ... execu­tive officer of Douglas Aircraft Co., was presented 1963 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy at Aero Club of Washington's annual Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet. ''(NAA Release)'' Speaking at Boston College Seminar ...

... Kitty Hawk, N.C., flight with the opening of a new exhibit featuring the 1903 Wright Flyer, the Washington Star reported. The exhibit, including pages from the 1903 patent, photographs, and other memorabilia, would open three days before the actual anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight Dec. 17, 1903. The special Wright exhibit would be on display for a yr. Paul Garber, first ... Wilbur Wright had died in 1912 of typhoid fever. " In an interview before the exhibition opened, Garber said, "I can look through the window of a modern jetliner and see the Wright aircraft ...

... Organization in London. In a ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution marking the 95th birthday of Wilbur Wright , the Early Birds—an organization of pilots who soloed before December 16, 1916—presented plaques ... Smithsonian of Mario Calderara and Umberto Savoia, Italy's first military pilots and taught by Wilbur Wright. AFSC announced that a small, inexpensive radar capable of showing an airport control tower operator ...

... .67; DOD Release 1182-67)'' The 64th anniversary of first powered flights by Orville and Wilbur Wright from Kitty Hawk, N.C. Proclamation issued by President Johnson to commemorate their achievements cited ... Aircraft Corp.'s Igor I. Sikorsky Sikorsky Aircraft Div., received the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy at Aero Club's annual Wright Brothers Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C. ''(NAA Release)'' Walter Sullivan ...

... . ''(Natl Archives PIO)'' President Nixon issued proclamation commemorating Dec. 17 as Wright Brothers Day: "On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright Orville and Wilbur Wright .. . stepped from a homemade contraption onto an ocean beach in ...

... which has been first in the world in commercial aviation from the time of the Wright Brothers decides not just to be second but not even to show." ''(PD, 12/14 ... ahead." ''(Text)'' President Nixon issued Proclamation 4024 to Observe Dec. 17 as Wright Brothers Day: "The names of Orville and Wilbur Wright symbolize American ingenuity and courage." Their Dec. 17, 1903, flight was ...

... December 17 of each year as " Wright Brothers Day," com­memorating first successful flights of heavier-than-air, mechani­cally-propelled aircraft by Orville and Wilbur Wright on Dec. 17, 1903. ''(CR, 12 ...

... , W Star, 12/17/68)'' President Johnson proclaimed Dec. 17 Wright Brothers Day, com­memorating aircraft flights made by Orville and Wilbur Wright 65 yr earlier: "Their first journey was shorter than the ...

... and control system (AWACS), "leader" of the USAF command and control structure, had arrived at Wright-Patterson AFB for low-level flight tests conducted by the 6750th Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory ... on 75 years of powered flight, quoted the Dec. 17, 1903, telegram from Orville and Wilbur Wright to their father in Dayton, O.: "Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Success four flights Thursday morning ...

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