![]() ![]() ![]() As he reflects a whirlybird seed spirals down in front of him. With child-like persistence, he tries different tactics-lassoing it, hitting it off with a baseball, jumping on a pogo stick, spraying it off with a hose-nothing dislodges his new toy. He leans the ladder against the house and climbs to the top rung, but he’s not nearly close enough. He ponders what to do for a moment, then gets a ladder. His plane has come to a landing…on the roof. It soars upward…upward, its propeller spinning as it speeds away. He picks it up and gives it a good, hard throw. ![]() Laying it on the ground, he then becomes an airplane, zooming around with his arms out as wings. He runs outside to play with it, zooming it up and down. When the boy opens the box, he is thrilled to find a red airplane inside. Three Kremer Prize milestones still remain to be accomplished. Today people are encouraged to spend time outdoors catching the wind with a kite, pinwheel, sailboat, or maybe with a toy airplane like the little boy in today’s book! The Boy and the Airplane By Mark PettĪ little boy receives a present and watches the giver as he leaves. Paul MacCready when his Gossamer Condor, piloted by Brian Allen flew a figure eight around two markers one half mile apart. The first Kremer Prize was won on this date in 1977 by Dr. Today is set aside to honor the first manned air flight to win a Kremer Prize, a series of monetary awards established by Henry Kremer to commemorate pioneers in human-powered flight and administrated by the Royal Aeronautical Society. ![]()
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