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caption: DULLES INTERNATIONAL Airport, Near Washington, D.C., has been nominated for the "Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement" award given by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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Dulles Nominated For Engineering Award

Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, has been nominated for the "Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement of the Year" award. Dulles Airport, one of the largest commercial airports in the world, was the first to be specifically designed for jet aircraft. One of the distinct features of the Airport is the terminal building with its upper level main lobby and provision for mobile lounges, which take passengers to the planes.

The coveted award is given by the American Society of Civil Engineers to the engineering project that demonstrates the greatest engineering skills and represents the greatest contribution to civil engineering and mankind.

Editors to Choose

Editors of seven national engineering magazines will determine the winner of the projects nominated. The other projects that have been nominated are:

Marina City project in Chicago

The Tennessee Valley Authority Water Control System
IBM Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

Glen Canyon Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)

The Passenger-Cargo Pier in San Pedro, California

Pan Am Building in New York City

Taum Sauk Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Plant 90 Miles Southwest of St. Louis, Missouri

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Reconstruction Project in California

Nominations are made by National Directors of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Dulles International Airport was nominated by ASCE Director Waldo E. Smith, who is Executive Director of the American Geophysical Union with offices in Washington, D.C.

A bronze plaque will be awarded to the winning project.


Kitty Hawk Revisited
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The machine clattered down the wooden track, rose, stalled and catapulted to the sand. It was the old story. Man was not meant to fly. If he had been, he'd have come equipped with wings. The same thing had happened to the great scientist Dr. Samuel Langley, amid much greater fanfare only six days before. Langley had been working with a $50,000 Congressional appropriation as early as 1896, designing a man-carrying plane. His first attempt had failed and on December 8 along the Potomac River, newspapermen had crowded around a houseboat from which Dr. Langley made his second attempt. Reporters saw and recorded another failure. Without flying, the machine plunged into the water and the wreck made a sensational story. But there were no reporters on hand at Kitty Hawk December 14 to record the Wright Brothers' failure, not were they on hand three days later when the undaunted Wrights tried again.

December 17, 1903. 10:35 A.M.

Now the wind was stronger - 27 miles an hour. Sand whirled across the white beach. Orville, lying flat, slowly brought the engine to full power. The restraining wire was released. The craft began to move, slowly, then picked up speed. Orville tilted the horizontal stabilizer. And the plane rose in full flight under its own power, moving seven miles an hour. Wilbur ran along behind as the machine traveled 120 feet in twelve seconds. The dream of the ancients had become a reality.

Three more flights were made that day. The longest lasted 59 seconds and traveled 852 feet.

Thus came the beginning. And what came later, the air shows, the barnstorming, the World War I aces, Lindbergh, commercial air transportation, the jets, and now space capsules, have stories, dramas of their own. All are thrilling, many spectacular, yet none would have been possible but for the work of the two modest, hard-working bicycle mechanics who literally opened the door to the 20th century.

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