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Kitty Hawk Returns Home For 45th Anniversary (The machine with which man shook loose gravity's grip is home after 20 years in exile. A formal welcome will be held tomorrow in the north exhibit hall of the Smithsonian Institution.) --Line-- By James J. Strebig Associated Press Aviation Reporter WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (AP). Ice had formed overnight on rain puddles in the hard packed sand. In a wooden shack two young men huddled over a stove and gloomily watched the wind whip across the low island to the North Carolina mainland. It was early morning December 17, 1903. The wind speed indicator fluttered between 24 and 27 miles an hour. At 10 o'clock, Wilbur and Orville Wright hung out a signal for the men at Kill Devil life saving station, and soon three Coast Guardsmen and two other visitors trooped in. They began the business of laying a 60 foot single rail on a level stretch of sand. [Bold] Machine on Rail The flying machine was trundled out and balanced on the rail. Orville, then 32, crawled aboard on his stomach, fitted his hips into a cradle, grasped the control level, warmed up the engine, pulled the wire that loosed the craft's mooring, and started slowly along the rail. Wilbur trotted alongside, balancing the plane by holding the right wing tip. After 40 feet of the rolling and sliding along the track, the plane rose into the air for an unsteady journey of 120 feet before a sudden downward dart sent it bumping along the sand. Orville Wright described the Incident in a letter: [Bold]"This flight lasted only 12 seconds, but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started." After the first successful run the machine was hauled back to the starting point. [Bold] Wilbur's Turn It was Wilbur's turn. He flew nearly 200 feet in 13 seconds. Orville made the third flight, going [[over?]] 200 feet in 15 seconds. Wilbur made the fourth journey, a spectacular trip of 852 feet in 59 seconds. However, in landing the [photo] [Bold] FLIGHT AT KITTY HAWK, N.C. [Bold] When Wright Brothers Launched the Air Age [new column] support for the front rudder was broken. How thorough the brothers were in planning is shown by a single achievement: The first air-plane they ever built, powered by the first multiple cylinder engine they ever built- all based on their own research- flew successfully. The Wrights' first offer of the "flying machine" was to the war department. They dealt with the British, French and German governments before the United States Army finally purchased on in 1909 for $30,000. The original plane had cost $1,000 without allowance for the brothers' time, but they spent many thousands of dollars more in development. [Bold]38 Minute Flight flight test headquarters were set up at Huffman's pasture, northeast of Dayton. The first full circle was flown September 20, 1904. By the end of the 1905 season a single flight of 38 minutes covering 24 miles in circles and "S" turns had been achieved. The brothers devoted most of 1906 and 1907 to building up protection for their patent. Public flight demonstrations were begun in France in 1908 by Wilbur in August, and at Fort Myer by Orville in September. Within a year Louis Bleriot [new column] crossed the English Channel by air. The Wright brothers' first plane was sent to London by Orville Wright in 1928. The Wrights had won a dozen patent suits in this country and others in Europe ad they fought to uphold in the law the achievement all recognized in the air. There was no question about who made the first human flight. The issue was whether the Wrights had discovered the secret of how to do it. [Bold] Langley 'Flight' When Glenn H. Curtiss of Hammondsport, N.Y., organized the Herring-Curtiss company in 1909, Federal Judge John R. Hazel granted a restraining order, recognizing the Wrights as pioneers in the flying art. The United States Court of Appeals upheld the Wrights in 1914. A few months later Curtiss asked permission of the Smithsonian Institution to make new [new column] [photograph] WRIGHT BROTHERS Orville (left) and Wilbur Photo Made Before 1912 flight tests with the Langley aerodrome. This machine, designed by Dr. Samuel P. Langley, Smithsonian secretary, with government aid had failed a short time before the Wrights first flew. The Langley plane was greatly modified for the trials so that structurally and aerodynamically it was a different machine. In that condition it made a couple of five second hops. Thereafter, using a report written by Dr. Albert F. Zahm, an associate of Langley, the Smithsonian Institution announced that the original Langley machine without modification was the first craft capable of powered flight with a man. That could be tremendously important to the Wrights. Wilbur had died in 1912. Orville resented not only the claim that the secret of flying had been discovered by others, but was concerned as well with the possibility of having numerous successful court actions overturned. [Bold] Plane to England Orville's quarrel was with Mr. Charles D. Walcott, who became Smithsonian secretary in 1907 and held the position until his death in 1927. The Kitty Hawk went to England in 1928. A few months later Dr. Charles G. Abbot, now re- [new column] [photograph] FINALLY IN THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION H. Roy Waite (Left), Who Knew Orville, and Curator Paul Garber (Prone) at Controls of Original Machine tired, became Smithsonian secretary. He tried immediately to settle the quarrel and have the famous flier returned. With all his eagerness, it required 15 years to reach agreement. In fact, it did not become certain until after Orville's death last January 30 that he had asked the British to send the plane home. --Line-- Five Californians are scheduled today to attend ceremonies in Washington commemorating the forty-fifth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first air-plane flight. The five- members of the "Early Birds"- are Adolph Sutro, 57, 25 Lorraine Court; Mrs. Ruth Law, 34 Rosewood drive of San Fransisco; Frank Coffyn, 74, of Menlo Park; Robert G. Fowler, 62, of San Jose; and Roy Knabenschue of Los Angeles. To qualify for membership in the "Early Birds," it is necessary to hold an air pilot's license issued before December 17, 1916. Fowler was the first man to fly from coast to coast. It took [new column] him 45 days and 65 landings. In 1913 he became the first pilot to fly from ocean to ocean with his flight across the Isthmus of Panama, 45 miles in 65 minutes. He holds license No. 36. Mrs. Law was the first woman to fly a plane, and purchased Wright Brothers' third plane. Sutro is the holder of Civilian pilot's license No. 1. Coffyn holds license No. 26. [Bold] Elk's Yule Jinks San Francisco Elks will stage their annual Christmas High Jinks tomorrow night at their clubrooms, 456 Post street. [New Column] S.F. CALL-BULLETIN-Dec. 16, 1948 [Bold] 13 Brownies to Play Santa Eighteen 7 year old Brownies, members of Troop 289 and all students at St. Brendan's School, are going to help make this a more joyful Christmas for the children at Laguna Honda Home. The small girls are stuffing stockings with toys, candy and other goodies, which they will [new column] deliver to the 18 children of the home next Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. M. J. Calonico of 38 Allston way, a troop leader, said today. Assisted by Mrs. John Ritchie of 245 Magellan avenue the Brownies will sing carols and present a short program for the Laguna Honda Home youngsters, Mrs. Calonico said. 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