Today, the original Wright Flyer airplane designed, built and flown by the Wright brothers is exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. 73, Tom Abernethy, W3TOM ARRL Director - Atlantic Division (301) 257-6225 Serving all of the ARRL members in the Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland/DC, Northern New York, Southern New Jersey, Western New York and Western Pennsylvania ARRL Sections. From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> On Behalf Of Baker, Mickey, N4MB (Dir, SE) Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 6:56 PM To: Stratton, John, N5AUS (Dir, WG) <n5aus@n5aus.com>; arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:32179] Re: A Wing Across Time and Space There's a reproduction of the Wright Flyer in the Wright Brothers Museum at Kill Devil Hills, NC. It's a large biplane. I'm glad to see that they're making good use of all that old fabric. It's amazing and fortunate that these brothers, self taught, evolved their expertise from bikes to kites to gliders to powered flight. Mickey -- Mickey Baker Director, Southeastern Division ARRL Phone (561) 320-2775 Email: n4mb@arrl.org <mailto:n4mb@arrl.org> From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org <mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> > on behalf of John Robert Stratton <N5AUS@n5aus.com <mailto:N5AUS@n5aus.com> > Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 9:48 PM To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org <mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> > Subject: [arrl-odv:32178] A Wing Across Time and Space In the long history of mankind it doesn't matter your politics, race, religion, country of origin or gender (or license class) - this is neat: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/03/24/Wright-brothers-wing-covering-NASA-P erseverance/1541616617351/ _______________________________________ John Robert Stratton N5AUS Director West Gulf Division Office: 512-445-6262 Cell: 512-426-2028 P.O. Box 2232 Austin, Texas 78768-2232 _______________________________________