Celebration Held To Commemorate Orville Wright's 1911 Soaring
Record
A grass-roots partnership of the primary sporting soaring
associations in the US, with the help of Kitty Hawk-based First
Flight Foundation, celebrated the centennial of Orville
Wright’s record soaring flight of 9 minutes 45 seconds set on
October 24, 1911. The event, called SOARING100, attracted over
10,000 visitors to the Outer Banks, NC venues of Jockey’s
Ridge State Park and Wright Brothers National Memorial over the
weekend of October 21-24.
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