Record #:

11300

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

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.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 33 Issue 13, Dec 1965, p8-9, 26, il, por

Subject(s):

Aeronautics--History; Wright, Orville, 1871-1948; Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912