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Dayton Celebrates 100 Years of Flight
Aired July 04, 2003 - 09:10 ET
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HEIDI COLLINS, ANCHOR: In Dayton, Ohio, now they are celebrating not only the birth of our country but also the 100th anniversary year of powered flight.
A 17-day celebration is underway in the city where the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, invented and built the first airplanes.
The festivities started last night, featuring silver clad ballet dancers. What does that have to do with flight? And a space ship made of aluminum and plywood. Among those on hand, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the world, and John Klein, the first American to orbit the earth.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can say Wilbur and Orville were, in many ways, the world's first astronauts, for it was they who first broke the bonds of earth's gravity. They were able to accomplish this magnificent feat because they had a dream.
COLLINS: Wilbur and Orville made the first powered flight near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903.
MILES O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: Wonder what Orville or Wilbur would have thought about that funny looking flying saucer there?
COLLINS: Probably not too much.
O'BRIEN: That "Lost in Space" thing. Maybe a few choice words.
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Aired July 4, 2003 - 09:10 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, ANCHOR: In Dayton, Ohio, now they are celebrating not only the birth of our country but also the 100th anniversary year of powered flight.
A 17-day celebration is underway in the city where the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, invented and built the first airplanes.
The festivities started last night, featuring silver clad ballet dancers. What does that have to do with flight? And a space ship made of aluminum and plywood. Among those on hand, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the world, and John Klein, the first American to orbit the earth.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can say Wilbur and Orville were, in many ways, the world's first astronauts, for it was they who first broke the bonds of earth's gravity. They were able to accomplish this magnificent feat because they had a dream.
COLLINS: Wilbur and Orville made the first powered flight near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903.
MILES O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: Wonder what Orville or Wilbur would have thought about that funny looking flying saucer there?
COLLINS: Probably not too much.
O'BRIEN: That "Lost in Space" thing. Maybe a few choice words.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
