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Thu 12 Dec 2009Centenary of first Irish powered flight celebrated
THE ROYAL Irish Automobile Club (RIAC) and their friends gathered exactly 100 years ago today for the first powered flight of an Irish aircraft.
The Irish Aero Club had been born at the RIAC premises on Dawson Street in November 1909, and just a month later, on the last day of 1909, members gathered at Hillsborough, Co Down, at the invitation of a founding member, the 25-year-old “mad mechanic” Harry Ferguson of Belfast.
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