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News Item: Recently, during an across America camping tour, I had the opportunity to visit the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina and while there, gave the National Memorial director (a part of the National Park System), Darrell Collins, a book form of the story "Who's On First?", which has only been published on the internet here at AVSIM. Apparently the park service is still doing battle with the State of Connecticut over the issue of who was first and my book and the posting of the same material here at AVSIM has now come to their attention (the National Park Service). I was completely dumbfounded when I was not only presented with this signed poster (with the caption of "Happy Flying" Wright Brothers National Memorial Thank you for Perserving the Legacy of Flight, [signed] Darrell Collins Historian", but I was also given the opportunity to handle the controls of the custom built precision replica, actually used during the 100th anniversery of Orville's flight on December 17, 1903. The photo of me holding onto the controls of this replica was taken by Darrell Collins.

 

In addition to "Who's On First?", I also gave the Memorial director/historian (Darrell Collins) a copy of my book "From The Ground Up" (where all the source material for "Who's On First?" was taken). I did send a copy of "From The Ground Up" to Tom back a couple of years ago and he really liked it. My book "From The Ground Up" was the result of a 10 year long research project into the the history of "all" the early pioneers of flight.