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Wright brothers first plane to join national museum
Executors announced the Wright brothers aircraft, first to fly with a man, would join the national museum in London’s science museum at South Kensington. Orville Wright sent it there in 1928 amid a dispute with Smithsonian officials. The plane flew at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, and the executors Harold S. Miller of Dayton and Harold W. Steeper of Lawrence, Kansas, followed Orville Wright's directions before his death on January 30.
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Dayton, D
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Orville Ve Estate
Science Museum
South Kensington
London
Orville Wright
Smithsonian
Ity Hawk
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National Museum
Harold S. Miller
Dayton
Harold W. Steeper
Lawrence
Kans