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Where the Wright Brothers Soared |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Text and photos by Eve Carr |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 2,115 Words, 13,216 Characters |
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As the expectant crowd settled into the cold metal folding chairs at the Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a band played "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful"--an appropriate choice, for it was December 17, 2002, just a week before Christmas. It was also fitting because an estimated five to six thousand faithful followers of flight were there to pay homage to mechanical geniuses Orville and Wilbur Wright, kicking off a yearlong celebration of the hundreth anniversary of the first flight on December 17, 1903. The top celebrity present was Gen. Ralph Eberhart, commander in chief of the U.S. Space Command, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, and the newly created U.S. Northern Command. Other seasoned veterans, flight enthusiasts, and lively youngsters eager to ...
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...liday House, New York, 1994.
Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers, Dover Publications, New York, 1998.
Elizabeth MacLeod, The Wright Brothers: A Flying Start, Kids Can Press, Tonawanda, New York, 2002.
Lynanne Wescott and Paula Degen, The Story of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk Told Through Their Own Words and Photographs, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1984.
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