{"id":218,"date":"2008-12-17T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=218"},"modified":"2013-02-14T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T22:08:44","slug":"real-aviation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/real-aviation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Aviation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Aviation Day is supposedly August 19th, because that&#8217;s Orville Wright&#8217;s birthday, but I submit that today is the real Aviation Day.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred five years ago today &#8212; December 17, 1903 &#8212; the Wright flyer made its first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.* Up until that day, August 19th was destined only to be National Bicycle Day.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Aviation Day, take a second to say a special prayer for the passengers and crew of an aircraft you see flying overhead. Or maybe listen to &#8220;Jet Airliner&#8221; or &#8220;Leaving on a Jet Plane&#8221; or something by the Jefferson Airplane. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>And for those interested, today also qualifies for another installment of our &#8220;This Day in Space History&#8221; series. Five years ago today, UHF Follow-On Flight 11 became the first U.S. military payload to be launched by a Russian-designed rocket engine. 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