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Description:(1905)
00 28 00 00 Airmen, pioneers, pilots. Orville Wright to Fort Myers in Virginia during summer, 1909. Close-up Orville Wright, smiling. Seen on the hangar with plane, mechanic remove doors and take out the plane. Among the men are the president William Howard Taft. Men with hats rowers. The last preparations, the preparation of the catapult for the takeoff. Time record of flight for Orville Wright, the 1 hour and 12 minutes and 40 seconds. Soldier rises in plane with him. Takeoff of the plane on rails. Trial flight for the army, stays the 1 hour in flight with a speed of 36 miles by the hour. Objective of military development. Implementation and takeoff. Plane transports two persons and and can fly until a distance of 125 miles.