11.12.2003
Celebrating the first centenary of flight
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The first hundred years of flight will be celebrated all over the world, in the media and at museums.
This year, December is not simply the month of Christmas celebrations. |
It is also the centenary of the Wright brothers’ first flight, which will be celebrated by the media and museums focusing on the history of flight.
The Discovery Channel
The Discovery Channel will be celebrating the centenary of flight from Monday, 8 December, to Sunday, 14 December, with a series of special programmes showing highlights from the first 100 years of aviation.
Museums
The Danish Technical Museum at Elsinore is offering a special exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight. The museum is displaying a scale 1:3 model of the Wright Flyer 1 aircraft. The first aircraft belonging to another pioneer of flying – Ellehammer of Denmark – will also be on display at Elsinore.
If you are Christmas shopping in London, you might want to visit the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, where the centenary is being celebrated by the opening of a new exhibition entitled “Milestones of Flight”.
The exhibition is being held in a brand new stainless steel building, and admission is free. The exhibition employs new ways to tell visitors about the history of flight using interactive screens, timelines and showing aircraft from the UK, Germany, the US, Japan and France.
The Internet
The omnipresent Internet is also celebrating the first 100 years of flying. There are many Web sites worth visiting for people interested in aviation, for instance: