Time Flight.

... Edward Darbyshire Original Writing-Time Flight Eleven years later I returned to the Smithsonian institute as a graduate student of aeronautical engineering. As I walked along Constitution Avenue I recaptured that sense of excitement I had felt when, as a boy I walked into the main hall of the museum and saw the Wright Flyer in its place of honour. Those flimsy white wings had lifted Orville Wright off the planet surface and made history in 1903. It had started my deep interest in aviation and so in the early years of the 21st Century I found myself returning to this place to work on aircraft of the future. I was to work with Professor Jim Lovell who was an expert on high-speed aircraft controls. I met the professor for the first time at a party for new students in a beautiful wooden house on a broad boulevard in Arlington. Mrs

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