Show airplane only ten tan years yam old did just a decade has passed since mina macbane was regarded as wonder of world it 31 af ate sa ajl alme of ahe A jarf A KT night jut tm ten ya yeni ea a ago D bruce 8 hallcy site ir a nor folk ta newspaper reporter entered the office of ct the united states weather bureau at mun man too teo N C 8 and wrote ft am ba brief deput dis patcha edh he a handed to A W water the officer then in charge with to duplicate it to a 4 rn metropolitan to dipilli in the last w j b he red had devign designated led in the upper left hand corner carris of the sheet the dis P patch tonal terse stated I 1 that h at wilbur wilber and ad or onille ile wright hod bad n flown own that after noon loon 1 1000 odd feet in a reactor heavier than air brahl machine propelled bv be I 1 an engine am and offered to la beas ad the tall full story stork on d telegraphic order next morning the world at lare bers was as glen an accurate account of the N rights ep epoch 0 ell making herfor once their machine in S achl na the construction ca of if which was mas known only to theno themselves olves and the few life savera over on an the north carolina banks who rho had aided them lug the big canvas and wooden bud bild up hill devil do 11 hill had soared oft off into space hid proceeded in a strallie lit ht line a fifth of a mile ile and had 1111 dropped gently to the sand with I 1 till neither itself nor its Inon mentors fors any n the worse far or the epo experience fence the reas news utterly atterb dis credited cred by bi funny scientists and ad taken take with mith a grain of salt by the public gen cralle v aa flashed the length and bread the world tile the perform ance was use considered incredible cart contrast 1 1 in newa new tomorrow s newspapers will tell f bombing Or airplanes dropping tons of deadly if elp call as on the lines of the s allies 1111 and ad the central pan powers era in pumps europe of of scouting machines circling thousands of feet in the air above these lines aud and of huge passenger biplanes biplane and ad monoplanes mono planes passing from point to point at speeds of from miles an hour upa ard these items nw am he be read mad co catu comalli mally ar and with little particular interest because they are frommon Fc common everyday every day occur fences me A day or so BO bidol salley galley filed 1 in th the a li manteo antes office the dispatch which electrified the world word led had bad been cor received elved in several metropolitan news paper offices that the wrights of ton 0 had gone to ritt hawk N C where they had appeared in loot 1001 and were nere again age i a conducting experiments experimental with a glider der as an without motive power Is coiled As the b had ad obtained obia ined some success in glider building and its as rumor c edited credited to them w with h having constructed I 1 steal ted as an e engine ngim capable of lifting the glider aglid from the g gi 1 on aund 1 it and propelling it through the a al air several I 1 new york news papera had dispatched staff rp rip to the banks bank they were vare at 1 abhi this 1 1 moment amt groping their way toy to th this isolated at amul of the world SO 50 ad odd it miles Is III aiom the rall mood mid ad fc bablo I 1 a only bv be motor boat from ellabeth CLY N C watched FlIg flights IvIs from tree salley n who ho had covered the book bauba sher e ald shipwrecks p aric k S worth north of oc burred verr ed there t h are had bad received rec elved in or ore so ac colors advance information r concern I 1 ing 19 the lyneta lYn hta film had the editors and had dropped down dean to manteo manaco on the island of roanoke re Ro anoLe L 1 eoma I it luva pre m imm reefs rach ailing thereafter he hid hd made do the tea mile 11 trip sr acrons i parallel sound to kitty hawk flank and from a crotch in a foret forest tree on the edge of the file bulk baila had aid ob served activities about the wright hangar with alith the aid of a Dower firl pair of field glasses HIS torch p ach also alo an sac excellent 7 ilent view of the oman ocean side of kill devil dertl hill largest of ill all the fiarn ka it dunes up the aid side of which had be been constructed a twice rich each day the weights I 1 I 1 t cd ad by the life cavers avers bit all of abom had bad been an or to secrecy y started the gild er at down the iello i incline ello e el elevated e v e d t the h e p pi i 1 me and ad bit into the air t to 1 I 1 0 giop P g graceful r ne c 1 u I 1 ly IY up upon the earth after short rights me measured arod 1 in 1 me by bv seconds an ac 1 estate description of at th atio cartI lies in vad which c it the IN brights frights gi its flew was wai imps sible as no DO close view of it could be obtained even by nn an adroit admit act and r re soura III reporter so damra determined dmd his wire the inventors lots to guard their craft with nith secrecy that they tom announced minced they would mould pack up oil their machine unit TO re euln to lie e instant they lm ed ad ill they Y were spied ta e d upon it n ana no part of soils a plan nn to spoil split a good gold story first long plight flight made the afternoon of slav MIT 6 va was cloudy with wilh it a tendency toward bonard min th the n wind ana northen and ad blowing 14 miles leir an hour the die wrights hour w would codd not it V fly in I 1 this sort bort ot of weather berthol the machine was brought aa aiom tile the hunger hangar and nil started the 91 glares ift s showed that it wag ant it only a equipped qui fprd with n gas as enone 1 ot hut hat it thalar carried seata cuts fhe two go and 1 had j ad a P pair ot of propellers the group afi of life I 1 saeid late prevented a clear view low of the wet aart but it it a moment later tile the reporter did see the machine take the air head dire for far tile the ocean and ad land a thousand P feet I 1 distant apparent iv under full fall or control meal of the pilot at lusk no a more flights flight having been attempted the reporter made his way y back bacat to mantoo w well 11 amit aware hat at he be had bad a story ory of war world w v tile ide interest but de depressed by the the fuels facts would mould be li gen a and orally P y ill di crad credited iteal next nest do dav half n dozen de newspaper men do aiom isea NO york arrived IT it at man too teo EN epry cry one vas v as a doubting thorn them as straight flom missouri ifill were sm ia all going right light over to the flying e fields his and talk to the wright but they I 1 r for r one thing the weights sprent ran I 1 for another ers eri bobbed up out of cohade now here when lie one S had labored through ahr augh the sand to a point n mile from the bangar they aliey were ore acting tire under special instructions front from washington which were to the effect affect that th the S inventors birs were more not to he be dist albed the wet wrights 8 had the b legal end of the a ga ent as they ill had borrowed tile the land from the I 1 ilfe savera th who owned it there 11 was but one thing to 1 do mut ans the reporters reporter 1 uld did it they followed the graple of salley and climbed trees trace may 11 the wrights made a fill flight ht of two rod and seven sixteenth miles and ad fall followed a ad this u with fill a flight of two and one miles the longer flight was tas made at the rate of 1 46 77 miles alteo and hour so and it ill the 1 I rise at 32 82 in IE each instance a as in all the others it n u is le ne cestary sely to wheel the to the top 0 of the incline Inc lill no m thod at that time being known mbel rask u n hereby the sin narp ino c could I 1 rise tn n I 1 the ll 11 air from level ground flight epoch making both these flights were epoch milk mak ing 1 in that the alie wrights dill did not at keep to a course lr lor tile that time they elected circled one of t the he dunes and also alo returned to the starting point after a of three fees of a mile flie fine observers com call dented on oil the skillful manner in which the big caad bird made ties the curves the mho ho covered these lot till tal illare strictly to such ench facts as they were able to obtain there thera a as no roman romancing clog no fanciful ascription tl script lons and no 11 of glae guesses yet th thise pill plain accounts clment an now to be mam verc term re in guided alli gre great I 1 su suspicion dicion then they were rec tied elied I 1 in a newspaper news imper of 0 flees me till reporters report a P art erg nos nere cautioned to he be conservative and one man an was TS our by the file editor of a cleeland Clee lind paper to I 1 condne ofine himself to facts ind and cut out all this bildat stun staff halt about amile flights the final ex 1 I mail made bill 14 at noon an that day the left the grounds old and ande ads a slight ill lot of niiles ill the dit arles being j judsen ged amol tely over ground care 0 all ions a pvc o r f were more alken litno two of the eight miles aids he ing ig mulda made 1 in two to minutes aej 41 sec ace giuli all several salami short flights flight alix then made anole lind late 1 in the day IV wllbur little Ight alth till Furness his bla i rose in the oil to beat even the eight mile record at the b of tw twy twenty Y feet he started up the beach ell fo n a north art easterly direction led and in ill the per face ot f a ad ch ame I 1 twenty mile lie an hour wind 1 in chron this athla flight one of the million itera wrote rate machine salted sailed beautifully the machine soiled sailed along serenely Y u under odor the bright blue bine illy iky like a thing endowed with life behind her posted floated a flock flack of gulls ile and ad em crows that a cd at once he 1 amazed I it and ad borbor of this new thing of the air jiing RI Ing th the hills hilla that jut out on the beach the cruiser of the air proudly lifted her nose ind hitting upward passed enlar easily over the thirty font summit sh she the then caret bcd on dnn dow n the beach until the three mile limit halt n was I 1 reached nhen b alth nother another a twist ot I 1 the lever the he described it scrib d a graceful gr mild turn ton and be son gan the I 1 ile journey jim ency back to th the point vi ih fth the he same e ease and gram grace she he made ads the return appearing old clipp d ap pp 7 earl ng at intervals as rod later hills h ile intervened let or ed and a d circled circle the hangar femme swung in ft a half circle once more and I 1 was off ngien over ever her he old tracks down ano cross across the and d dunes dune the picture was astounding and picturesque pleta que at once 1 I here bhore use nag not a motion list sl his ble nhen she pissed the observation point of the cor respondents mul and once more lucre she he lifted up and passed over the hill 1111 and out of sight eight it wag tas the lait la it vision the ill correspondents had of at the graceful airship down the homestretch between the sea ind the sand hill hi n math lug ze gave way ay th the a watch ers era heard beard a whirring of t the he machine and then III all was nas silent allent while we hefted for far her to reappear appear word was waa brought that the ship had been A wrong an IS leier had b been pulled end and her rose nose instead of llevat ing had turned down and she he had dived let into the sand aguy wire cut cat wright on the nose but he e other injury th the next ct appearance of the at hitt dank wag a marle made 1 in the fall of loll 1011 uhn orvllle orville wright mr con floor ducted ad a series of experiments experiment in a g glider jhb in the hope of perfecting a f b g de ire ce no engine ans we used d i during ratio one night he be remained stationary ry 1 in it alio air IT 30 feet above the c ct crest t of kill dodi devil hill ten min into nice and one second thereby breaking the worlds world s glider record |