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Wright brothers' success in aviation

1902 Still photo of glider made by Wright brothers in which they used wing warping technique for balance in flight. 1903 Still photograph of Orville Wright's first flight and plane on the ground. 1908 Newspaper headline and front page story of Wilber Wright's flights in France along with pictures. Wilbur Wright works on a transporting wheel of his plane in France. Horse tows plane across a field in France.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025925
Wright Plane flies in Le Mans, France.

Wright Plane flies in Le Mans, France. Wilbur Wight's plane with 25 horse power and two chain-driven propellers at Le Mans, France. Two men start propellers. Frenchmen pull Wright brother's plane 'B' Pusher type over the ground to steel rail catapult ramp. French military and civilian spectators at air show. Frenchmen pull launch weight into steel tower. Start of flight on 08 August 1908. Steel weight descends and plane catapult into air. Airplane flies.

Location: Le Mans France
Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025926
First flight with a passenger on Wright plane in France.

First flight with a passenger on Wright plane in France. News Clip of Wright plane in flight with photograph of Wilbur Wright and a headline as 'carries passenger 36 miles'. Wright and a French journalist sit as passengers on the Wright plane on 03 October 1908. Plane flies over water for 55 minutes and 37 seconds. People watch from the ground.

Location: France
Date: 1908, October 3
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025927
Henri Farman's flying machine in flight over France

Tail section of plane designed by Henri Farman, a successful competitor of the Wright brothers. Three men seen around the plane. Farman pours gasoline into tank from a can. Plane taxiing for take-off. Plane in flight over Issy-les-Moulineaux in France during demonstration in 1908.

Location: Issy-les-Moulineaux France
Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040853
British geologist George B. Reynolds and workers drilling for oil and striking oil in Masjed Soleyman, Iran, Persia.

Activities of George B. Reynolds and his team operating an oil drilling mechanism in Masjed Soleyman, Iran. Reynolds, representing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company or APOC, (which later became British Petroleum in 1954, or BP), studies maps while smoking a pipe. An oil rig set up in the desert at the location Masjid-i-Sulaiman. Workers and mechanics working at the rig. Close views of the diary records of George B. Reynolds. Men work on oil rigs under intense sun. The oil rig working and striking oil; a cloud of smoke and fire from the ground. Close views of a binder holding letter from Lewis Mallet to the British foreign office announcing the successful oil discovery. A seemingly unrelated two-second view of 1908-era motor cars on a street follows.

Location: Masjed Soleyman Iran
Date: 1908, May 26
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036727
Montage of Wright brothers and their airplanes in France and at Ft. Myer, Arlington, Virginia.

As a contrast to the early pioneering airplanes, passengers are seen seated inside cabin of a "modern" airplane (Douglas DC-4E). View of the DC-4E in flight. A view of Orville Wright. Wilbur Wright gesturing as he talks with officials in France about an aerial course to be flown. Wilbur Wright placing wheels under a Wright Flyer before it is moved across a muddy field in France. A team of men pull a rope raising a catapult weight in a tower. The weight falls, catapulting the Wright Flyer airplane into the air. Soldiers remove a Wright Flyer airplane from a storage building onto the parade grounds at Ft. Myer, Virginia. The airplane is seen in flight with Orville Wright alone, at the controls, On July 30, 1909, soldiers are seen moving a Wright Flyer from its shed for its final acceptance test. President William Howard Taft, U.S. Army Major George Owen Squier, U.S. Army Major Charles E. Saltzman and Wilbur Wright are among those standing with the President, as the Wright Flyer is moved toward the parade ground. Views of the monorail and weight and catapult used for launching an airplane. Men turn the two propellers on a Wright Flyer, as Wilbur Wright stands at the rear of the aircraft engine and makes an adjustment. . On September 9, 1908. U.S. Army Lt. Frank P. Lanham, seen in uniform, seated on a Wright Flyer, is joined by Orville Wright. Wilbur. They take off and set a new airborne endurance record, and Lt. Lanham becomes the first Military officer to fly in an airplane. On July 30th, as part of the final acceptance test, Orville Wright takes Army Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois on a cross country flight to Alexandria, Virginia, and back again. They are seen aboard the Wright Flyer, and then high in the air on their way to Alexandria.

Location: Virginia United States USA
Date: 1908
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033853
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