Flight captured on camera at Fort Myer April 7, 2016April 7, 2016Nesbitt Realty On July 27, Orville Wright and Lieutenant Lahm of the United States Signal Corps made a world's record flight at Fort Myer of fifty miles at a speed of about forty miles an hour. Orville Wright and Lieutenant Lahm of the United States Signal Corps making the world's record flight at Fort Myer, on July 27--The aeroplane made fifty miles at a speed of about forty miles an hour