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

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

Requa Gibson Fixed-pitch, Two-blade, Wood Propeller

Stringfellow Steam Engine

Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. Ground-Adjustable-Pitch Propeller

Curtiss B-8, V-8 Engine

Bastow-Page Ground-Adjustable-Pitch Airship Propeller

Curtiss E-4, In-Line 4 Engine

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

Langley Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood and fabric

Langley-Manly-Balzer Radial 5 Engine

Requa Gibson Propeller Co. Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood

Clement V-2 Engine

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

Requa Gibson Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood

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

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

Wright 6-70, In-line 6 Engine

Gnome Omega No. 1 Rotary Engine

Baldwin Red Devil Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood

Requa Gibson Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood

Anzani A 2, Radial 3 Engine