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perpetual preservation in the United States National Mu- 

 seum the Kitty Hawk plane with which he and his brother 

 were the first in history to make successful sustained human 

 flight in a power propelled heavier-than-air machine. Fi- 

 nally, as a further gesture of good-will, I am willing to let 

 Langley's fame rest on its merits, and have directed that 

 the labels on the Langley Aerodrome shall be so modified 

 k as to tell nothing but facts, without additions of opinion 



as to the accomplishments of Langley. This label now 

 reads as follows: 



LANGLEY AERODROME 

 THE ORIGINAL SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY 

 FLYING MACHINE OF 1903. RESTORED. 



DEPOSITED BY 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



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