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So we're having a celebration with our

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community partners , community leaders

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about the 97th anniversary of Wright

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Field , which really commemorates going

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back to 1927 when the community

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basically donated the land that Wright

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Patterson sits on to this day . It was

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an amazing opportunity to get a flight

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in the right be flyer replica that has

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been produced by some of our local

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leaders and folks who actually work on

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the base flying over the Huffman

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Prairie in the same way that the Wright

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Brothers did over 100 years ago , the

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birthplace of aviation and the

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beginning of aviation history was just

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phenomenal . He literally gave me goose

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bumps as I was in the airplane and

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looking down on the ground and seeing

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the silhouette , the shadow of the

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Wright flyer and knowing that I was

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inside it and the Wright Brothers over

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100 years ago , experienced that same

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feeling flying . The very first

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aviation Swies out of Huffman Prairie .

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We had this foundation of innovation

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and this foundation of inventiveness

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and a spirit of people who didn't see a

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boundary and they didn't see anything

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that was going to be in their way

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mentality and those characteristics are

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going to be very important to what our

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future looks like . So being able to

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celebrate that today , um just really

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helps us focus on that heritage .