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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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A light brown model biplane with curved brown struts, a large propeller, curved white wings, and three angled white tail fins.

Model, Static, Heinrich, 1910

Full view of a wood and cloth model aircraft with red wheels and frame and a gray propeller. The white cloth extends in an arc over the aircraft.

Model, Static, Ellehammer II

Full vire of a wooden model biplane with brown struts and two sets of curved white cloth wings.

Model, Static, Henri Farman, 1909

Full view of a model tan biplane with gray struts positioned next to a wooden structure with a black cylindrical weight in the middle of it.

Model, Static, 1905 Flyer, Wright

Full view of a tan model biplane with light brown struts and curved tan wings. A black and gray engine sits in the middle.

Model, Static, Curtiss D

Full view of a model gray biplane with light brown struts and a boxlike structure.

Model, Static, Wright Glider, 1911

A brown model biplane with large curved wings. There is an engine in between the wings. There is also string supporting the wings and struts.

Model, Static, Curtiss "June Bug"

Full view of a brown model biplane with light brown struts and a gray engine. The skid is modified for landing on water, and there is a gray figurine of a man in the pilot's seat.

Model, Static, Curtiss Hydroaeroplane

Clement V-2 Engine

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

Model, Static, Antoinette IV

Boxy, pusher biplane fitted with a tricycle undercarriage. The landing gear and struts are painted orange. The wings are covered in a yellowish fabric.

Curtiss D-III Headless Pusher

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

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

Cup, Omaha World Herald

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"

Vertical, six-cylinder engine incorporating a flexible flywheel drive and dual carburetors.

Wright 6-70, In-line 6 Engine

Medal, Count von Zeppelin

Kelly Cup

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

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

Model, Static, Curtiss 1914, "Little Looper"

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

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

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