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Orville Wright along with Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois prepares to make first cross country flight

A film titled 'Lieutenant Foulois and Orville Wright make the first cross country flight. Fort Myer to Alexandria, Virginia and return'. Orville Wright along with Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois prepares to make first cross country flight. They climb into the seat of the plane. Men aboard plane.

Date: 1908
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040851
Wilbur Wright demonstrates flying in Le Mans in France

Wilbur Wright demonstrates in Le Mans in France to convince people that man could fly. Plane moves down track. Plane airborne after leaving single track. Men stand on ground as plane takes-off. Several French dignitaries sit and watch Wilbur Wright flying over barren terrain. A newspaper headline reads 'Wright glides in air as a hawk'.

Date: 1908
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040861
Wilbur Wright adjusting a transporting wheel in a plane and cranking motor

Father of aviation, Wilbur Wright adjusting a transporting wheel in a plane. A horse driven cart seen. Several men cranking the 25 horse power motor of Wright airplane.

Date: 1908
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040862
A Wright plane catapulted by means of a falling weight

Men standing near a Wright machine. Plane catapulted by means of a falling weight. Several men hauling up the weight that catapulted the plane from the rail.

Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040863
Wilbur Wright flies in air with a French journalist

French social leaders fashionably dressed watch demonstration of flying. Men and women are seen wearing hats. Wilbur Wright goes up with a French journalist remaining aloft for 55 minutes and 37 seconds. Both seen seated in the plane. Several men stand as the plane takes off. A newspaper headline reads 'Wright in new world record'.

Date: 1908
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040864
Wright Brothers give first public demonstration of their Wright flyer in Le Mans, France.

Officials and interested spectators fill the stands at Hunaudieres race course, near Le Mans, France, to watch a demonstration of a Wright Flyer airplane. Wilbur Wright places a large wheel under the aircraft as he and his team prepare a Model A Wright Flyer, for movement.Horses are seen towing it across a field. A man checks the planes launching track. Closeup of men maneuvering the aircraft into position on the launching track. Next, several of them are seen pulling together on a rope to raise a heavy weight up a small tower, to provide the launching power for the airplane. Next, two men pull the propellers through to start the Flyer’s engine. A passenger is already seated as Wilbur Wright climbs aboard and puts his hands and feet on the plane’s controls. View of the launching weight dropping to the ground and causing the Flyer to accelerate along its track and take off. A group of officials, wearing white armbands, watch the takeoff and the Flyer as Wilbur Wright maneuvers it skillfully above the race track grounds. Complete change of scene shows U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on a platform, covered with a huge American flag. He is giving a speech. Scene shifts back again to Le Mans, where the Wright Flyer is still maneuvering all about in the air, above the grounds. Scene shifts again to World War I. American volunteer flyers with the French Lafayette Escadrille are seen in flight gear, by their Spad airplanes (marked with their distinctive Indian in head dress logo). They run to their respective planes and board them. View of the Spad airplanes with engines running and then taxiing out for takeoff.

Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055378