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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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Reciprocating engine with 28 steam expansion tubes connected at the bottom to a water supply piping system and at the top to a boiler. A slide valve, piston, and pulley are mounted to a steel-framed tower next to the steam generator.

Stringfellow Steam Engine

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