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Show Invented the thing and then England Eng-land virtually monopolized all future development, with a few European nations helping. We think the London' museum has a grand exhibition. But many Americans, Amer-icans, we believe, could wish that Mr. Orville Wright, who loaned the first plane, would have It brought back to its old home nest New York-Telegram. WHY NOT BRING THIS BIRD BACK TO HOME "NEST"? In the Science museum in London t the grand entrance to England's large exhibition of airplanes and fly-mg fly-mg machines, extending over three-quarters three-quarters of a century, Is the first plane that ever flew the plane of Klttv Hawk, loaned by Orville Wright This is world aviation's greatest trophy. It is suspended in the air, and in It, lying face down, Is a dummy representing, rep-resenting, we assume, one of the Wright brothers at the controls. That dummy Is an eerie concoction, tvith a cap on. But it Is not the off-note of this flummy 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 isd not in Washington, New York, Philadelphia or even Dayton, the Wrights' home. The contribution of the United States to aeronautical progress after the Wrights 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 Bmall and labeled by a yery small card. A man from Mars would get the Impression that the United States |