Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1953-12-25
Rehabilitation


The sands of Kitty Hawk have
been churned in recent days by
the feet of the great and the near
great in a week-lOng On-the-spot
tribute to the dawn of aviation. On
Kill Devil Hill, where so years ago
OrVille and Wilbur Wright glOri-
fed in the wind the U. S. Weather
Bureau had told them they might
expect here, old pilots and new,
civil and military; aviation tycOOns,
airframe and engine builders
shivered dutifully as the same wind
that lifted the first plane whipped
their OveTcOats around their legs.
They heard Admiral Dewitt G.
Ramsey, USN (ReD recount that
this kite-like prototype of the more
than 100000 planes that America
has produced since, ushered in the
air age by a flight lasting II seconds,
and that it's total flying life was
probably less than two minutes. Its
speed over the ground averaged
about thirty miles an hour COM
pared with 1850 miles per hour
more than twice the speed of sound
that has been clicked by one Of
it's latest descendants.
Our lOngest-ranged planes have
flown more than $4,000 times as
far as that first 100 foot flight"
said Admiral Ramsey, land with
aerial refuelling, they have flown
around the world nonstop"
We gather from his remarks that
Admiral Ramsey, who, as presi-
dent of the Aircraft Industries
Association should be an authority,
thinks the Wright Brothers faced
the same fundamental problems as
the men who build planes today.
The experimentation and research
to which they gave long, patient
years, are no less important today.
Trial and error, success and failure
continue. The lead-time required to
design and build a plane is still
long, just as it was for the Wrights.
In pin-pOinting his belief that
the greatest heritage of the Wright
Brothers to the industry that fol-
lowed the achievement at Kitty
Hawk was their point of view,
Admiral Ramsey quoted Orville
Wright as saying:
wilbur and I did not take
nearly so much pride in the fact
that we were the first to fly as
we did in the fact that we were the
first to have the scientific data
from which a flying machine could
be built"
Rededication to this outlook
should get the aircraft industry
off on the right foot for the second
half of the first century of fight.
Chinese Puzzle
With Arthur Dean, the U. S.
special Korean peace" envoy home,
after walking out of the PanmOn-
JON talks four days earlier, the
question of what happens next is
anybOdy's guess.
The celebrated Dean patience
gave out after the Reds capped
seven weeks of wrangling with thu
Charge tudl the y. p 4ldA COAuIfNt
with South Korean President Syng
man Rhee in the release of 27,00C
anti-Red prisoners from their com
pounds last June. Just before his
departure, came a Communis
demand for immediate resumption
of the talks, with a REPETITION of the
"perfdy" charge, rather than {
. retraction of it-plus some as
sorted new insults.
"I shall not be with you," replied
Mr.. Dean, " until you make al
appropriate retraction or correction
of this insult in a manner salts
factorily to my Government"
Instead, Mr.. Dean will be witt
officials of the State Department
in Washington and representative
of the IS other UN nations who's
troops fought with us in Korea.
President Rhee, who has take,
full responsibility for the prisOne
release, blasted the Red charge a
false, and hailed Mr.. Deans walk
as ga signal of victory" A hug
crowd gave the envoy a heart
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