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Meanwhile:
How about a
little music?
We have a selection of tunes that were
popular during the first days of aviation, performed by Sue Keller, courtesy the
Ragtime Press:
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 istory
is an endless storehouse of treasures, and pioneer aviation is one of its
richest rooms. Small wonder that pilots like to spend hours "hangar
flying," sharing tale after tale . Any aviation story worth telling
is rich with adventure and discovery. After all, these are tales about men
and women who fly, a unique and awesome ability that mankind
has only developed in the last century.
Part of our job at the Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company is to dig up
pioneer aviation stories, brush them off, and share them with you. In
doing so, we organize that information so that it presents a coherent
picture of the lives of the Wright brothers and the history of early
aviation. But we occasionally find unique and interesting treasures that
don' quite fit the categories we've developed. Rather than ignore
these odd gems, we've decided to bring them front and center. Here, then
are a few of the unique and precious oddities that we've discovered in the
far corners of aviation's attic.
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| With the Wrights
in America -- Griffith Brewer was Englishman who became one of
the Wright brothers best friends and most ardent supporters. In this
short piece, he describes his first visit to Dayton, Ohio, sharing
interesting details and insights about the Wright factory, their
flight school, and life at the Wright home. |
Griffith Brewer at Simms Station. |
| The Lost Flights
of the Wright Brothers -- Thanks to several generous souls, we
have uncovered 14 vintage photos of the Wrights and their first pupils
flying at Huffman Prairie and in Sedalia, Missouri. The photos document
the period when the Wrights compared both front and back elevators and
eventually abandoned their distinctive tail-first or canard design
for a conventional aircraft configuration. |
Flying the Wright Model AB. |
| The
1909 Wright Glider -- In 1909, several aviation enthusiasts
in England had Thomas Clarke build an updated version of the 1902 Wright
Glider that they could use for training while waiting for their powered
aircraft to be built. Clarke came up with a cross between the 1902 glider
and a Wright Model A. |
Flying a Wright glider in England. |
Kate
Carew's Interview -- The first woman journalist to
become famous for her interviews takes on Wilbur and Orville -- and shows
a completely different side of the brothers other than the sober persona
they projected to the world.
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Carew also drew these caricatures of the brothers. |
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