Saunders, the editor of the Elizabeth City Independent, organized the Kill Devil Hill Memorial Association to ensure a proper commemoration of the Wrights’ first flight effort. Saunders sought to memorialize the site of the Wrights’ experiments and to underscore the importance of the Outer Banks to their success. At the local level, North Carolinians, led by W.O. The increased flight activity of the late 1920s encouraged a public recognition of the Wrights’ place in the history of aviation. Lindbergh’s nonstop flight from New York to Paris in May, 1927. air division, which started with Wright-supplied Signal Corps aircraft in 1917, grew to a force of 13,000 planes, with orders pending for 52,000 more.īy the mid 1920s, a period of renewed interest in flight culminated with Charles A. World War I highlighted the Wrights’ contributions to the development of flight.
George Grantham Bain Collection- Library of Congress Orville preparing the flyer for takeoff- Fort Myer, 1909
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