It is interesting to recall the fact that the famous
flight of Wilbur Wright at Kittyhawk took place in 1903. Thus the aeroplane celebrates its twentieth birthday this year. How long it seems since those spring days five or six years later when, accompanied by his brother Orville, Wilbur Wright gave demonstra- tions Of flying over the flat ground near Pau. What a milestone in one's life it was when one first saw that curious-looking winged monster of Wilbur Wright's with the large tail skimming just over the cumbersome ox wagons on the plain, with the Pyrenees in the back- ground ! What an impression of meticulous care over details Wilbur Wright made on all who met him then, as he personally inspected every nut and wire before entering the pilot's seat ! To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Wright aeroplane, the World's Work of America appeals for the passing of Mr. Hicks's Bill to create a Bureau of Civil Aviation in the Department of Commerce at Washington.
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