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The big day is almost here. On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 10:35 a.m., at the Wright Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, a pilot will climb aboard the most accurate Wright Flyer reproduction ever constructed and proceed to go flying, just as Orville Wright did for the first time precisely 100 years to […]

January 2003 : Lilienthal… and the Mysterious Book February 2003 : Birds… and the Twisted Box March 2003 : A Place Called Kitty Hawk April 2003 : Fall 1900… The First Flights May 2003 : Mosquitoes… and Disappointment June 2003 : Light at the end of the Tunnel July 2003 : The Mouse and the […]

The N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has announced a plan to provide free public transportation services for the six-day First Flight Centennial Celebration in December. About 35,000 attendees are expected each day of the celebration. Since there is no parking available at Wright Brothers National Memorial, the NCDOT plan is designed to get attendees to […]

The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum welcomed the Boeing S-307 Stratoliner to its new home, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Originally built in the late 1930s, the four-engine Stratoliner was the world’s first pressurized passenger airplane, allowing it to fly at altitudes of 20,000 feet, which was unprecedented for that era. The sole survivor […]

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The Boeing 707 that served as an Air Force One aircraft for 28 years is on its way to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The airplane was disassembled at San Bernardino International Airport (California) and transported to Simi Valley, where it will be reassembled, restored and put on public display beginning […]