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Early Flight

Air and Space Museum

Early Flight uses artifacts like the Lilienthal Glider, 1909 Wright Military Flyer, and the Blériot XI to explore how in one short decade people in America and around the world were pushing boundaries, setting records, participating in air shows, and turning the aircraft into a technology that would usher in the aerial age.


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Aerial view of a monoplane model with cloth wings, miniature wheels, and a propeller

Model, Static, Antoinette IV

Full view of a model gray biplane with silver struts, a boxlike structure, and two silver propellers.

Model, Static, Wright C

Medal, Louis Bleriot

Minerva

Wright Ex "Vin Fiz" Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood

Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Glenn Curtiss

Simmons Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood and metal

American Propeller and Mfg Co. Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood

Model, Static, Henson Aerial Steam Carriage "Ariel"

Medal, Count von Zeppelin

Metal engine with 7 cylinders arranged in a circle around a central propeller shaft, on display stand.

Gnome Omega No. 1 Rotary Engine

Medal, A. Santos Dumont Pioneer of the Air

Model, Static, Curtiss 1914, "Little Looper"

Medal, Chavez Flies the Alps, 1910

Medal, Aviation

Model, Static, Columbia Monoplane

Scientific American Trophy

Plaque, Collier Trophy, Glenn Curtiss

Medal, Gordon Bennett Championship, Glenn Curtiss

Anzani A 2, Radial 3 Engine

Wooden white and light brown model of a military cruiser. There is a tan plane landing on the deck between rows of black and white sandbags.

Model, Armored cruiser U.S.S. Pennsylvania with Eugene Ely in Curtiss

The Fledglings

WILBUR WRIGHT GREETS LADY LIBERTY


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