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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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Medal, Louis Bleriot

Minerva

Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Glenn Curtiss

Cup, Omaha World Herald

Model, Static, Henson Aerial Steam Carriage "Ariel"

Medal, Count von Zeppelin

Kelly Cup

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

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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