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Where do you
wish to go?
To find specific information,
consult our Museum Guide.
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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Welcome
to our History Wing. In this wing, you'll find:
| The Wright Story is
a biography of Wilbur and Orville Wright, from Wilbur's birth in 1867 to Orville death in
1948. Along with their story, we've included many of their own writings, eyewitness
accounts, and the remembrances of the people who knew them.
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Click
on the pictures to enlarge them.
Wilbur and Orville Wright getting the Flyer 2 ready to fly at Huffman Prairie,
near Dayton, Ohio in 1904. |
| A History of the Airplane
traces the history of the fixed-wing aircraft, from its
conception in 1799 to the first truly stable aircraft that emerged just before the
beginning of World War I.
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A scene from the Rheims "Aviation Week"of 1909, the first major air
show, with an impressive 38 planes on display. (Only 23 of them got off the ground, but it
was still impressive.) |
| Just the Facts provides a
quick and easy way to look up specific information on the Wright Brothers and early
aviation history. |
Three-view engineering drawing of the Wright Model B, the first airplane to be
mass-produced in 1910. |
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