EAA’s announcement on Sept. 12 for its "Countdown to Kitty Hawk" celebration generated considerable worldwide coverage. Worldwide news agencies like the Associated Press, Scripps-Howard News, Cox, and Reuters, along with national U.S. publications like the Washington Post and New York Times each provided coverage of EAA’s ambitious plans to sponsor the only officially sanctioned centennial flight. See below for more.
Washington Post /
International Herald-Tribune
"The plan is to reproduce the Wrights' "machine" right
down to the muslin, test it in an old Air Force wind tunnel and fly it at
Kitty Hawk at 10:35 a.m. Dec. 17, 2003, exactly as the brothers did a
century earlier." Complete story
Associated Press
"With its thin wooden frame, the open airplane resembles a
toboggan with wings. It has no landing gear and requires the pilot -- in
the 1903 flight, it was Orville -- to operate the plane lying on his
stomach, using his hips to help steer." Complete
story
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"To build the plane, the EAA has commissioned a Virginia pilot
and aviation buff, Ken Hyde, whose non-profit foundation is devoted to the
study of the Wright Brothers' achievement. "It's very humbling to
just understand what the two gentlemen were trying to do," Hyde
said." Complete
story
Scripps-Howard News Services
"They're the people who build or restore airplanes in their
garage, and then actually go out and fly them. And the leaders of the
Experimental Aircraft Association figure they're the logical outfit to
honor and celebrate the centennial of the first successful flying
tinkerers, Wilbur and Orville Wright." Complete
story
AvWeb
"How's this for an ETA? The flight of the replica 1903 Flyer is
scheduled for 10:35 a.m. on December 17, 2003, on the same sand dunes from
which the original flew 100 years earlier, to the minute." Complete
story
