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Launch of Wright plane in North Carolina on 17 December 1903 and in Virginia on 09 September 1908, United States.

Launch of Wright plane in North Carolina on 17 December 1903 and in Virginia on 09 September 1908, United States. Wibur Wright places wheels beneath wing on Kill devil hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States. Wright plane takes its first flight after launch. Flight of plane in France. Two men pull props through on the Wright aircraft. Frenchmen stand and watch Wilbur Wright who makes adjustment on aircraft engine. Launching tower at right. Wright plane launches by catapult in France. Civilians and officers attend the air show. Wright plane passes overhead. Flight of Wright plane in United States. Orville Wright and Lieutenant Lahm sits on control section of the plane. Wright plane launches by catapult launch track at Fort Myers in Virginia on 09 September 1908. Plane in flight at Fort Myers. Spectators watch the plane. Army personnel move the Wright plane across open terrain they remove hangar doors from storage building. Army personnel grouped around the Wright aircraft. President Taft stand along the spectators. President Taft walk through spectators.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1903, December 17
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025913
Wright Brothers' first flight is celebrated and seen in archival footage, including flights at Le Mans France and other sites

Chronicling history of early flight. A German motorless glider early aircraft is launched from atop a hill and flies over bystanders on a field. Short history of the Wright Brothers flights at Kitty Hawk is given, showing planes, hangar, and living quarters for the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina during 1903 to 1908 period. Footage of successful flightby Wilbur Wright in Le Mans France on August 8, 1908. People watch from grandstand as plane flies. Newspaper headlines detail success in Le Mans. Front page of "The North American" is shown with headline "Wright Glides in Air as a Hawk; flies 2.17 Miles in 106 Seconds!"

Location: Le Mans France
Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027432
Beginnings of successful powered heavier-than-air flight. Wright Brothers flights in U.S. and Europe. General Hap Arnold

History of aviation. A balloon in flight. Historic glider such as that which interested U.S. War Department as early as 1898. In 1903, a crew of men moving a Wright Flyer into position. Two men turn over propellers on a Wright Flyer, and the engine starts. View of the Wright-designed water-cooled engine. View of Orville Wright. The famous first powered flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville Wright at controls. Animation shows that 120 foot flight juxtaposed against a B-36 wing. Wilbur Wright in Europe, in 1908, gesturing as he converses with interested parties. A gallery of spectators including the President of France, King of England, King of Spain, and King of Italy. Wilbur Wright places a wheel under the right wing of a Wright Flyer and lashes it to the strut. A team of horses pulls the plane across the field. Men maneuver the plane onto a monorail on the ground. Men pull on a heavy rope to raise a weight in a tower, for a catapult. Two men spin the propellers and the Wright Brothers airplane motor starts. Wilbur Wright and his passenger, a French journalist, board the plane. The catapult weight drops, launching the aircraft which flies low over the field. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, on a podium. War department issues specifications for a heavier-than-air craft. Reenactment of a Wright brother signing a bid contract. A Wright Flyer airborne at Fort Myer, Virginia, as the Wrights meet the Army specifications and sell, U.S. Army airplane number 1, to the War Department, in 1908. Gold Aviator wings being pinned on the uniform of a U.S. Army pilot. Photograph of Army Air Forces Chief, General Henry (Hap) Arnold, wearing his original aviator wings on his service uniform. A Glenn Curtis training airplane starting up and taking off. View of a DH-4 airplane and a Wright Flyer taking off together.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1908
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051723
General Henry Arnold awards Orville Wright at a ceremony in Washington DC.

A stationary plane on an air field in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Wright brothers fly the plane. One of the Wright brothers seated at the controls. The plane takes off. Forty years later General Henry Arnold awards Orville Wright at a ceremony in Washington DC. Huge crowd attends the ceremony. The United States Air Force planes in flight. Aerial view of land.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053536
Wright brothers and development of their plane, United States.

Development of first airplane by Wright brothers in United States. Airplanes in formation. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright talk with each other. Drawing of first model of flying machine at Dayton Ohio. Improved successive models. The hanger and living quarters of Wright brothers. The plane Ville Wright takes off from Kill Devil hills in Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, on 03 December 1903. A Wright plane takes off with hanger and a balloon in background.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1903
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036819
Experimental wind tunnel and souvenir to Orville Wright at the Wright brother's workshop in Dayton, Ohio.

Wright brother's workshop where they began work on their first plane in Dayton, Ohio. The experimental wind tunnel of the Wright brothers, kept on a test bench. Interior of the wind tunnel. A photograph of first take off at Kitty hawk, North Carolina. A souvenir on the eighteenth birthday anniversary of Orville Wright, on August 19, 1951.

Location: Dayton Ohio USA
Date: 1951, November
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036846
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