Wilbur Wright pilots a full-size glider down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on October 10, 1902. This model was the third iteration of the Wright brothers’ early gliders. Rare Historical PhotosWilbur Wright at the controls of the damaged Wright Flyer, on the ground after an unsuccessful trial on December 14, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Rare Historical PhotosWright Flyer I, built in 1903, front view. This machine was the Wright brothers’ first powered aircraft. The airplane sported two 8 foot wooden propellers driven by a purpose-built 12 horsepower engine. Rare Historical PhotosA close-up view of a Wright airplane, 1911. Rare Historical PhotosThe remodeled 1905 Wright machine, altered to allow the operator to assume a sitting position and to provide a seat for a passenger, on the launching track at Kill Devil Hills in 1908. Rare Historical PhotosFront view of flight 41, Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, September 29, 1905. Rare Historical PhotosThe Wright Brothers fly over horse drawn carraiges. PinterestWilbur Wright makes a 33-minute-long flight during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in New York in 1909. A feat witnessed by hundreds of thousands of New York residents. Rare Historical PhotosSiblings Orville Wright, Katharine Wright, and Wilbur Wright at Pau, France. Miss Wright about to be taken for her first ride in an airplane. February 15, 1909. Rare Historical Photos
Orville Wright during proving flights for the U.S. Army at Fort Myer, Virginia, in July of 1909. The Wright brothers were able to sell their airplane to the Army’s Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps. Rare Historical PhotosTroops of the U.S. Army Signal Corps rush to the site of a crashed plane to recover the pilot Orville Wright and his passenger, Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge, who died from his injuries, from the wreckage on September 17, 1908. Rare Historical PhotosWilbur Wright flies a Wright Model A by the Statue of Liberty during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909. Pinterest
