gfowler-ord-1k

I won't be able to make it to Kitty Hawk but am proposing that FT people meet on online for a FT chat at 10:35 AM US EST, Dec 17 to drink a toast. Very few of us will be around for the 200th, so here is your last chance.

Discovery Channel has quite a few special programs this week. The "Wright Brothers, First in Flight" tells of the building of the Wright 1903 Flyer reproduction that will be flown at Kitty Hawk -- excellent.

If anyone know of live broadcasts of the event on TV or internet, please post.

See you 10:35, December 17.

Calendar of events is at http://firstflightcentennial.org/dec...lebration.html

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gfowler-ord-1k
Living in SIN

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gfowler-ord-1k

The ceremonies will televised live on C-SPAN 9:30 - 11:00 AM US EST
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:808...d=211938340954
First Flight Centennial Ceremony
Wright Brothers National Memorial
First Flight Centennial Commission
Experimental Aircraft Assn.
National Park Service
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina (United States)


During the 90 minute ceremony, there will be speeches from a stage as well as an attempted re-enactment of Orville Wright's 12 second powered flight 100 years ago on December 17, 1903. The re-enactment of the flight will be attempted at the same place and time (10:35am) as it was 100 years ago. It will be done on board a reconstructed exact replica of the original Wright Flyer. There will be two people (trained pilots) portraying Orville and Wilbur Wright (they will be in period garb) for the flight re-enactment.

President Bush may make his “Back to the Moon” speech during this event.

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gfowler-ord-1k
Living in SIN

Latitudes

I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but wasn't Richard Pearse the first to fly, and not the Wright brothers?

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Latitudes.

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

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gfowler-ord-1k

bump
Not any replies that people will be on chat, but I will be online and watching TV.

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gfowler-ord-1k

Five people showed up to chat and toast - and 2 of them were brand new to FT. Too bad the flight is delayed because of weather. But that has happend to most of us. :-)

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DK_1KGal

We are just heading back to SAN after spending the week in Kill Devil Hills -- we had a great time and were in the pavillion when they tested the engines just prior to the attempt Dec 17 am. Even with the rain, cold (and even some snow on the way back to our flight out of IAD) it was amazing. Met lots of flyers of all types, well worth the time and effort to get out to Kitty Hawk / Outer Banks / Kill Devil Hills.

Fraser

Evening all, I was there on the Monday 15th. Drove down from Williamsburg and could see quite a few planes doing the flypasts from the bridge over to the Outer Banks. Got there just as the B52 flew past. Also saw a B1 roar over and a F117, first time I've seen one looks a bit like a black Concorde from a distance

there are some photos from the day I was there on here

Username: flyertalk
Password: flyertalk

Then went to Mama Kwans and wish I'd ordered fish tacos followed later on by a lovely moonlight walk with Kirstin on the beach up past Corolla

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