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HONORED GUESTS OF HAPPENINGS AND HISTORY

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176 C KA CS 33 Paid. Via Norfolk Va
Kitty Hawk  N C Dec 17
Bishop M Wright

7 Hawthorne St

Success four flights thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone average speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 seconds inform Press home [[strikethrough]] chris [[strikethrough]] Christmas.

Orevelle Wright 525P
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Home for Christmas. What a holiday present to the world- and history, Milton Wright, later a Bishop of the United Brethren Church, said of his sons, "The world has come to think of Orville and Wilbur Wright as demigods whose minds suddenly produced the answer to the problem of flight, or as ignorant mechanics who stumbled on the secret of flight. They were neither. They were very normal young men who had an idea and saw a problem, and set about to solve the problem."

In paying tribute to the Honored Guests, we pay tribute to the countless men and women who have pioneered and served the interests of flight in a wide variety of ways.
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Our selection is not complete, no selection can ever be, and alas, time and the trials of age have prevented many from attending. The Honored Guests collectively represent nearly 3,000 years of flight, and service to the aviation community; they span a time from the stage coach era to the opening of the commercial jet service. Nearly all have accomplishments in several specialties, for it would seem, aviation pioneering is a wide avenue. There are the air mail pioneers and the long distance flyers--pioneers of design, construction, and manufacturing--leaders of Federal legislation and administration, and pioneers in airport architecture and engineering --there are veterans of
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the great trophy wars and the air race days-- record-breaking heroes and early military daredevils--men of science and invention and men of education and communication--as well as pioneers of the geographical frontier. Their denominator is excellence and energy.

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We are saluting an extraordinary prototype: the pioneers of aviation. No one can deny the symbolism of democracy in their immense contribution, professionally and personally. It has been so substantial for progress and for good, that all men should look upon it with pride and gratitude. The credo, "To Dare and Do the Impossible," has gained deeper validity with their quest and spirit. It is to the furtherance of this kind of vigorous and individually inspired excellence, so important to man's group progress, and to his dreams, that the action programs of The World Center for Exploration have been conceived and dedicated.

Maynard M. Miller, Chairman, 
The World Center for Exploration Foundation

[[image No. 14 - black & white photograph of a bust of Wilbur Wright]]
[[caption]] [[Wilbur Wright's signature]] [[/caption]]

[[image No. 15 - black & white photograph of a bust of Orville Wright]]
[[caption]] [[Orville Wright's signature]] [[/caption]]
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Transcription Notes:
Reviewed Misspelling of Orville (Orevelle) in telegram intentional