Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-17 | Page 19 | Utah Fliers Soar over City Commemorating Wright Hop

Utah Fliers Soar Over City Commemorating Wright Hop THEY JOINED IN WRIGHT BROTHERS' MEMORIAL FLIGHT Lieutenant Laden Powell, left; Major Bay T. Elsmore, and Captain Harlan Montague ' a. Man Took to Air in Earnest 34 Years Ago Thirty-four year ago Friday the first successful heavier than air flight changed transportation history. his-tory. The Wright brother. Orville and Wilbur, soared aloft in an air-plan air-plan at Kitty Hawk. N. C. So Friday morning, in Salt Lake City and throughout the nation, aviator avi-ator took to the air la modern flying machine to wheel In commercial com-mercial flights and- celebrate National Na-tional Aviation day. The Wright flight, December 17, 1903, lasted from 12 aecond to 5 second. The world' record for an airplane remaining aloft I hours and 4 minutes 27 day. That's a far cry from Kitty Hawk and ths windswept Kill Devil hill where Orville and Wilbur Wright changed history. Five plane took off from Salt Lake City' municipal airport Friday Fri-day at S:30 a. m. for flight over the city. They remained aloft about 20 minute, but the pilot saw little of the city because of smoke. Three army ship piloted by officers offi-cers of the army air reserve corps and two commercial planes nosed up through the smoke which blanketed blan-keted the airport. Pilot were Major Ma-jor Ray T. Elsmore, Captain Harlan Montague, Lieutenant Lucian Powell, Pow-ell, Ben Rich Jr. and Vera Halli-day, Halli-day, airport manager. To moat of the public the Wright brother are legendary figure, but one of them, Orville, is still living. His home i In Dayton, Ohio. He seldom makea public appearances. He is governor-at-ktrge of the National Na-tional Advisory Commits for Aeronautic. Aero-nautic. When the Wright took off they had nothing but their machine, nerve and sk4U to assist them. When five planes took off from the municipal airport Friday they had everything science haa contributed contrib-uted to aviation safety, including a light gun to direct them to landings on the airport runways. . Rudolph Or lob, chamber of commerce com-merce aviation committee chairman, and Mr. Halliday were in charge of Salt Lake City's obeervance of the day.