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Centennial
Events
Why
wait for December? And, if you're not coming to Kitty
Hawk, there may be a centennial event in your area! For
the national event calendar, visit the U.S.
Centennial of Flight Commission. Event organizers submit your listing here.
September
October November
December
SEPTEMBER
This month: Pushing the Limits: Aviation Flight Research
as seen through the NASA Art Program opens at the Outer
Banks History Center Gallery at Roanoke Island Festival
Park in Manteo, NC. The exhibit will open September 1
and continue through December 31, 2003. Sponsored by
GlaxoSmithKline. Open seven days a week, hours change
seasonally, free admission. For information, call
252-473-2655.
20: National Air Tour visits Wright Brothers National
Memorial. Beginning at 10:00 am, an anticipated 25
historic aircraft, including large transport tri-motors,
flying boats and open-cockpit biplanes from the 1920s
and ‘30s, will be on public display around the base of
Big Kill Devil Hill. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
see these aircraft and meet the pilots! To track the
historic trip, visit the National
Air Tour web site.
26: American Hero, American Legend. Billy Mitchell
Celebration
OCTOBER
10
and 11: Commemoration of 1902 Gliders and Hang Gliding
Event
11: Macon
County Aviation Centennial Celebration - Macon County
Airport in Franklin, NC. 10am to 5pm. Admission $3.00 /
12 & Under Free. Highlights are NASA displays
including a Lunar Sample (Moon Rock), USAF
displays, helicopter and other aircraft
sightseeing flights of fall color, aircraft static
displays, skydivers and much more! Call toll free for
information at 888-720-7829 or visit the web
site.
18:
Celebrate 100 Years of Flight at Crissy Field from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m., a FREE family festival in the Presidio
of San Francisco, CA. Come see vintage aircraft, a
flight attendant fashion show and fascinating displays
of air travel memorabilia. Junior innovators can invent
their own flying machines, make and fly kites, and
launch paper airplanes on a miniature runway. For
information or directions call (415) 561-5500 or visit www.crissyfield.org
NOVEMBER
2:
Defying
Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight. This new
exhibition celebrates the centennial of flight with the
nation's largest flight-related contemporary art exhibit.
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight opens
November 2, 2003 and runs through March 7, 2004 at the
North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC. Call
919-715-5923 for information or tickets or visit www.ncartmuseum.org/flight
8:
ICARUS International Monument to a Century of Flight
Ribbon Cutting (changed from September 27, please know
that there was no damage to the installation or the site
from Hurricane Isabel). Join us to officially open this
new Monument at the Aycock Brown Welcome Center.
DECEMBER
1: UNC
Speakers' Series - December 1 at 7:00pm, The Auditorium,
UNC-Chapel Hill, NC. William Stott III, Director of AEFS
will lecture on Robert Frost's Kitty Hawk- The Poetry of
Flight
1-31: 100 Years,
100 Works presented by Icarus International December 1
– 31 from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Festival Park Art Gallery.
Heralding the connection between creativity and
invention, one hundred works of flight inspired art will
fill the Festival Park Art Gallery. An opening reception
will be held on Sunday, December 7 from 4 – 6 p.m. For
more information call Icarus International at
252-441-6584 or Roanoke Island Festival Park at
252-475-1506.
4: The Wrights of
Passage with David zum Brunnen. Three shows - 10 am, 1
pm and 7:30 pm. The Film Theatre at Roanoke Island
Festival Park in Manteo, NC. zum Brunnen will
construct the Wright Flyer on stage and tell the story
of the Wright Brothers. Sponsored by the Dare County
Board of Commissioners, the event and is free and open
to the public.
6: The Outer Banks
Forum for the Lively Arts celebrates First Flight
Centennial by presenting Jim Walker and "Free
Flight". From Bach to Beethoven to Miles Davis to
the Beatles: the leading flute in Hollywood! Performance
is Saturday, December 6 at 7:30pm at Kitty Hawk
Elementary School; tickets are $15 in advance/$17 at the
door, students 12-18 $5 with student I.D., accompanied
children under 12 free. For more information call
252-202-9732.
12 to 17: First
Flight Centennial Celebration at Wright Brothers
National Memorial
13 - 17: Outer
Banks Aviation Film Festival, Roanoke Island Festival
Park, The Film Theatre. Highlighting the history of
aviation on celluloid, sponsored by the Outer Banks
Visitors Bureau and Dare County. Free.
December 13 - 4:00 pm: Battle
of Britain; 7:00 pm: Airplane
December 14 - 4:00 pm: A Guy
Named Joe; 7:00 pm: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
December 15 - 4:00 pm: The
Great Waldo Pepper; 7:00 pm: Wings
December 16 - 4:00 pm:
Strategic Air Command; 7:00 pm: Spirit of St.
Louis
December 17 - 4:00 pm: Wings of
Eagles; 7:00 pm: The Right Stuff
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