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... 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 ... 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 ...

Dr. Frank L. Wattendorf, Engineering Division, Wright Field, and a member of AAF Scientific Advisory Group, recommended to Brig. Gen. F. O. ... facilities for development of supersonic aircraft and missiles, be built on a location away from Wright Field and near a large source of power. The British newspapers report that Captain W ...

... announced reassignment of M/G Edmund F. O'Connor, Vice Commander of Aeronautical Systems Div., Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to become Deputy Chief of Staff for procurement and production at AFSC Hq. Aug. 1, He would be succeeded at Wright-Patterson by M/G John B. Hudson. '' (ASFC Release 180.70)'' Peter Ross Murray, AFSC ...

... to compel release of report. '' (Ungar, W Post, 8/22/70, A3)'' Dr. Theodore P. Wright, Civil Aeronautics Administrator from 1944 to 1948 and former Vice President and Director of Engineering with Curtiss-Wright Corp., died in Ithaca, N.Y., at age 75. '' (Bachinski, W Post, 8/24/70 ...

... President Truman; Constellation Columbine III and 47J Sioux helicopter used by President Eisenhower, reproduction of Wright 1909 Military Flyer; B-70, only remaining ultrasonic bomber; Douglas World Cruiser New Orleans, which flew around world in 1924; Soviet Mig-15; and relics of Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk. Museum, "first permanent repository of Air Force memorabilia," was 244 m (800 ...

... 4174 calling upon public to observe December 17, 1972, as Wright Brothers Day, "both to recall the accomplishments of the Wright Brothers and to provide a stimulus to aviation in this country ...

... Post, 12/15/72)'' Federal Aviation Administrator John H. Shaffer received 1972 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy at annual Wright Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C. Citation was for "outstanding leadership of the ...

... , 105) William Allan Patterson, pioneer of many firsts in the airline industry, would receive the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy at an annual dinner in Dec. sponsored by the Natl. Aeronautic Assn ... the U.S. The trophy, a miniature silver copy of the plane flown by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903, had been awarded yearly by the NAA for significant ...

... , May 78, 5) The Dayton Air Fair had accelerated efforts to complete construction of a Wright B Flyer replica by the Apr. 30 fair date. Operation Tailwing, organized to ensure completion ... no longer existed, the builders had used measurements of one of the two original remaining Wright B craft, replacing wood with aluminum tubing and steel. Computer studies had verified that propellers ...

Amos Root, editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture publishes his observations of the first time the Wright Brothers flew in a complete circle. Image:Gleanings_in_Bee_CUlture_Jan_1_1905.jpg Gleanings Cover for this date Image:Gleanings_Jan_1_1905.jpg Article on Wright Brothers Image:Amosroot.jpg Amos Root, publisher of Gleanings in Bee Culture

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