[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H6302-H6303]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CELEBRATION OF 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT

  (Mr. HALL of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, on December 17, 1903, two brothers in 
my district of Dayton, Ohio, solved the mystery of flying. Since that 
first flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright the airplane has changed the 
course of transportation and commerce and communication and war.
  In the year 2003, our Nation will celebrate the hundredth anniversary 
of the miracle of modern technology, and today my colleague, the 
gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Jones], and I will introduce 
legislation to create the Centennial of Flight Commission.
  The purpose of the commission is to help coordinate our national 
celebration of this milestone. This effort is intended to follow other 
major commemorative celebrations, such as the anniversary of the 
Constitution and the American Revolutionary War.
  We hope that our legislation will help all Americans take pride in 
our history and renew the value of American ingenuity that made the 
Wright brothers so successful.

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