On Oct 24, 8:37*am, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Oct 24, 8:42*am, Burt Compton - Marfa wrote:

OCTOBER 22-24, 2011. * Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA
Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Orville Wright's record
soaring flight of 9 minutes 45 seconds in 1911 at Kitty Hawk.

Location: *Wright Brothers National Memorial and First Flight Airstrip
at Kill Devil Hills, NC. Hang soaring and paragliding at Jockey's
Ridge State Park Nag's Head, NC, about 3 miles south.

Three Days of soaring exhibitions, exhibits, seminars, history, youth
activities and final celebration of one of the landmark early soaring
flights that marks the beginning of sustained soaring as we know it.

The fall 2011 SSA Directors meeting will convene during SOARING 100.

Go to vintagesailplane dot org for more details on this event.

This is a good opportunity to publicize soaring locally also. *Perhaps
your soaring organization would consider an open house, 'record-
breaking' flights (breaking Orville's record that is), and maybe group
photos. *Invite the local media. *See alsohttp://www.firstflightfoundation.org/soaring100.html

Frank Whiteley

Al little trivia:

The site record was not broken for many decades. Despite several years
of intensive hang gliding instruction on the dunes in the early 70's,
HG performance had not yet reached a stage where it was practical to
soar for very long on the small vertical relief found there. However,
on Thanksgiving Day of 1974 one of the instructors on site unpacked a
new design called a "Thermal Shark"- it featured higher aspect ratio,
lower wing twist, and more controllability. Upon setting up the
glider, he proceeded o break the Wright Brothers historic record by
flying for more than a hour on his first attempt.

I remember the details because I designed and manufactured the
glider. :-)

Best Regards,

Gary Osoba