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Aviation's Methodical Pioneers

A month before their fateful flight at Kitty Hawk, Orville Wright wrote his father in Dayton, Ohio, instructing him to prepare a press release hailing the success of the world's first flying machine. Wait for a telegram, the letter said, then "notify the papers and the Associated Press." [Washington Post: Front Page]

Posted by mikki on December 14, 2003 10:43 AM |

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