WHAT:
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum marks exactly 100 years of powered flight with special talks and performances in the gallery for the exhibition "The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age"

WHEN:
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 10:15 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

WHERE:
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
National Mall Building
Sixth Street and Independence Ave, S.W.
Washington D.C.

WHO:
Peter Jakab, chairman, Aeronautics Division and exhibition curator, National Air and Space Museum (giving gallery talks at 10:15 a.m., noon and 3 p.m./available for interviews in gallery immediately after each talk)

Actors depicting Wilbur, Orville, and Katharine Wright and Franz Kafka (11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.)

NOTE TO EDITORS:
The original 1903 Wright Flyer, the world's first airplane, is the centerpiece of the exhibition, where it is displayed at eye-level for the first time in its history at the Smithsonian.

Also at the museum's Mall building on Dec. 17, more than a dozen museum authors will sign their latest flight-related publications from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.