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40 Pioneer Airmen Tour Kitty Hawk

By Richard J. Maloy
Post Reporter

KITTY HAWK, N.C., Oct. 13.
Forty pioneer birdmen from throughout the world made a sentimental journey to the birthplace of aviation here today. 

Hardy survivors of flight's early decades, came from 10 foreign countries and the United States to tramp over Kill Devil Hill where the Wrights flew the first ship. They later made an aerial tour of the historic site by helicopter. 

The group flew here today from Washington where they have gathered to attend Wednesday's International Air Pioneers dinner sponsored by the National Aeronautic Association as part of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of powered flight.  

Today they found the windswept sand dunes of Kitty Hawk little changed from the time when Wilbur and Orville

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