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Show Invented (he tiling find then Eug land virtually monopolized all futurj development, with a few Europeai nations helping. We think the London museum hal a grand exhibition. But many Amen leans, wo believe, could wish tha Mr, Orville Wright, who loaned thi first plane, would have It brought back to Its old home nest. Nei York-Telegram. WHY NOT BRING THIS BIRD BACK TO HOME "NEST"? In the Science museum In London at the grand entrance to England's large exhibition of airplanes and flying fly-ing machines, extending over three-quarters three-quarters of a century, is the first plane that ever flew the plane of Kitty Hawk, loaned by Orville Wright. This Is world aviation's greatest trophy. It Is suspended In the air, and in it, iying face down, is a dummy representing, rep-resenting, we assume, one of the Wright brothers at the controls. That dummy is an eerie concoction, with a cap on. But It is not the .off-note of this dummy in the historic sky vehicle that we are thinking about now, but rather the off-note of the original Wright plane, one of America's great treasures, being In South Kensington and not in Washington, New York, Philadelphia or even Dayton, the Wrights' home. The contribution of the United States to aeronautical progress after the AVrights Is also almost completely complete-ly Ignored In the great exhibit, which is dominated by the succession of British planes and models, though there are numerous historic models from France, Germany and Italy. The Wright Invention has only one American brother In the exhibit, a contemporary Douglass model, very small and labeled by a very small card. A man from Mars would get the impression that the United States |
