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.

Early Flight

Model, Static, Johnson Monoplane, 1911

Model, Static, Walden IX, 1911

Model, Static, Curtiss Twin Tractor

Model, Static, Boland Tailless

Model, Static, Chanute Bi-plane Gliding Machine, 1896

Model, Static, 1:4 scale, Cayley 1804 Glider

Model, Static, Chanute Multiple Wing Gliding Machine, 1896

Model, Static, Wright Model D

Model, Static, Wright "Baby Grand"

Model, Static, Walden III

Model, Static, Wright "R"

Model, Static, Martin Bi-plane

Model, Static, Heinrich Monoplane

Model, Static, Heinrich, 1910

Model, Static, Ellehammer II

Model, Static, Henri Farman, 1909

Model, Static, 1905 Flyer, Wright

Model, Static, Curtiss D

Model, Static, Wright Glider, 1911

Model, Static, Curtiss "June Bug"

Model, Static, Curtiss Hydroaeroplane

Model, Static, Antoinette IV

Model, Static, Wright C

Model, Static, Henson Aerial Steam Carriage "Ariel"

Model, Static, Curtiss 1914, "Little Looper"

Model, Static, Columbia Monoplane

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