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Background imagePowered Flight Collection: Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Wright Bros

Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912
Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. American aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright are generally credited with inventing, building

Background imagePowered Flight Collection: First flight of Wright brothers aircraft, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, December 17

First flight of Wright brothers aircraft, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, December 17, 1903. The first powered, heavier-than-air controlled flight in history flight lasted 12 seconds

Background imagePowered Flight Collection: Langley Quarter-scale Aerodrome, 1903. Creator: Smithsonian Institution

Langley Quarter-scale Aerodrome, 1903. Creator: Smithsonian Institution
Model of the unpiloted, tandem-wing experimental aircraft built and tested by Samuel P. Langley, powered by a five-cylinder radial internal combustion gasoline engine of about 3.2 horsepower

Background imagePowered Flight Collection: Langley Aerodrome Number 5, 1896. Creator: Smithsonian Institution

Langley Aerodrome Number 5, 1896. Creator: Smithsonian Institution
Model of the unpiloted, tandem-wing experimental aircraft built and tested by Samuel P. Langley. One one-horsepower, one-cylinder steam engine turning two pusher propellers via geared transmission

Background imagePowered Flight Collection: 1909 Wright Military Flyer, 1909. Creator: Wright Brothers

1909 Wright Military Flyer, 1909. Creator: Wright Brothers
Canard biplane with one 30-to-40-horsepower Wright vertical four-cylinder engine driving two pusher propellers via sprocket-and-chain transmission system. No wheels; skids for landing gear

Background imagePowered Flight Collection: Santos-Dumont making the first powered plane flight in Europe, Paris, 1906

Santos-Dumont making the first powered plane flight in Europe, Paris, 1906
Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) flying his 14-Bis aeroplane, powered by an Antoinette engine, in the Bois du Boulogne, Paris, in 1906

Background imagePowered Flight Collection: Wright Brothers biplane Flier, 1910

Wright Brothers biplane Flier, 1910
Wright Brothers biplane Flier, used fuel injection, Card published 1910

Background imagePowered Flight Collection: Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first powered flight, North Carolina, December 17 1903

Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first powered flight, North Carolina, December 17 1903
Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first powered flight, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17 1903. Photograph ACKNOWLEDGEMENT must be made to The Smithsonian Institution


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