Constantin Brancusi :: Raptor in flight, Romania, ca. 1937-1938/ via
regardintemporel / via RMN
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Louis Paulhan flying near a gas-filled balloon in his Henry Farman biplane, during his record-breaking flight (4600 ft.) at Dominguez Field, January 12, 1910. Paulhan is sitting at the center of the front wings in this primitive biplane. His biplane passes a nearby balloon with one person piloting it. The advertisement painted on the balloon reads: “All in the Examiner”.
Claudia Ruiz-Gustafson :: Flying Lessons, from
The Space Between series. / source: claudiafineart.com
Wright Brothers glider in the midst of a record flight in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, 1911 / source: topdesignmag
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Wilbur Wright in Glider Test Flight :: Wilbur Wright gliding in level flight, single rear rudder clearly visible; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 1902. The image shows an early Glider Test Flight by the Wright Brothers./ src: old-picture.com
Photographs document the Wright brothers’ advances in early flight. The brothers made 105 flights on the Flyer II in 1904, some as long as five minutes. / source: The Telegraph
Henri Giffard’s captive balloon above Paris in 1878.
Captive balloon of Henri Giffard over Paris, 1878.
Exposition Universelle de Paris / Paris World Exhibition, 1889 (The card reads “Balloon races at Vincennes”)
Montgolfière, place du Carrousel, 1878. From collection of the famous French documentation photo-agency Roger-Viollet.
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