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Wright Plane Presented Today

versary ceremonies today at the scene of the first flight, Kitty Hawk, N.C.

Today at 12:30p.m. in the White House President Truman will give three men a prize for pioneering the greatest transportation speedup since the Wright Brothers. They will get the Collier Trophy often called aviation's highest honor, for their part in the first faster-than-sound flight by an airplane carrying a human being. Winners are selected by the National Aeronautics Association. 

The three are:
John Stack, Government researcher, who laid scientific groundwork for the flight. He worked among the wind tunnels and labs of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Langley Field, Va. 

Lawrence D. Bell, Buffalo aircraft maker, who designed and built the supersonic plan, the X-1. 

Capt. Charles E. Yeager, Air Force test pilot from Hamlin, W. Va., who made the first supersonic flight October 14, 1947.