Abstract:
After the famous day when the Wright brothers flew around Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright sent a message through the Kitty Hawk Weather Bureau station. This article gives information on how the press reacted to that first flight in 1903. THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT, a Norfolk newspaper, wrote an inaccurate story of the flight the next morning. Other out-of-state papers picked the story up and the inaccuracies of the flight continued to filter through the media before it was corrected.