Re: "Four flights Thursday, ...Inform press.... Home by Christmas."

J. del Col wrote:

>The contraption and the bicycle makers
>four times aloft at Kittyhawk,
>among astonished gulls unused to share
>their mastery of the wind; the air
>sundered briefly, the most a minute;
>before gravity resumed dominion
>over canvas, wood and wire. 
>One hundred years later the Concorde
>travels by barge.

Flight for thought.