Wright Brothers, with Orville in the ‘Cockpit’
“This flyer, seen at Kitty Hawk in 1901, was unsuccessful as a manned kite but was used as a glider.”, 1901 / src: Swann Galleries
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Orville Wright :: The pictures depict the brothers’ No. 2 glider, their
subsequent heavier-than-air craft flying at Sims Field (including the
Model R) and close ups of machinery. Silver prints, 1901-1928. / src: Swann Galleries
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
On October 24, 1911, a press photographer for NY Times
captured Orville Wright in the midst of a record flight in Kill Devil
Hills, North Carolina. “Glider in the Air Nearly 10 Minutes,” read the
headline the next day. / source: New York Times
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