Date: | 10 10 1902 |
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Description: | Wilbur Wright gliding down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Much of the Wright Brothers' success derived from the fact... |
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Description: | Elevated view of Experimental Aviation Association (EAA) crowds at Wittman Field in Oshkosh during the mid 1980s. The control tower is in the background. |
Date: | 08 1983 |
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Description: | A performance by the Earl Cherry acrobatic team at the EAA Convention and Fly-in. |
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Description: | A Concorde begins its takeoff, like a giant bird over the crowd at the Experimental Aviation Association Fly-in. |
Date: | 08 02 2001 |
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Description: | A rainy day at Middleton Municipal Airport, formerly the Morey Airfield. |
Date: | 03 1909 |
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Description: | Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake... |
Date: | 03 1909 |
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Description: | The airplane invented by Carl S. Bates on the beach at Daytona Beach, Florida. Coverage of this event by a local newspaper noted that the advantages of Bat... |
Date: | 03 1909 |
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Description: | Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Cicero Field flight instructors Edward Finan (left) and DeLloyd Thompson seated in a Wright Model B airplane at the Chicago International Air Show. The pla... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Mickey McGuire, a mechanic with the Max Lillie Exhibition Team that was based in Chicago. Pioneer aviator Jesse Brabazon, who knew McGuire from their days ... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Chicago Tribune cartoonist John T. McCutcheon with his Wright Model B airplane, probably photographed at Cicero Field. McCutcheon is sometimes referred to ... |
Date: | 11 1912 |
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Description: | Jesse Brabazon, pioneer aviator from Delavan, flying over the Mississippi River in a Wright Model B airplane. "It was quite a sight to fly over the Mississ... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Wilbur Wright, in profile, with a Wright Flyer. The original photographic postcard from which this image was copied was presented by Wright to pioneer avia... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | The monoplane glider built and flown by Carl S. Bates of Clear Lake, Iowa. During the previous year Bates had built a bi-plane glider. |
Date: | 08 1912 |
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Description: | The monoplane built by Carl S. Bates, an aeronautical inventor originally from Clear Lake, Iowa. |
Date: | 07 1910 |
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Description: | A Wright airplane on the beach. Walter Brookins, who piloted the plane to a new altitude record, is thought to be the man in the hat near the center. |
Date: | 07 1910 |
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Description: | Walter Brookins, a boyhood friend of the Wright Brothers, flying a Wright airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City. Brookins set numerous records for altit... |
Date: | 07 1912 |
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Description: | Glenn Curtiss flying over the ocean. The pontoons under each wing illustrate the beginnings of his development of amphibious aircraft. The famous Steel Pie... |
Date: | 01 1910 |
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Description: | The grandstand at the Los Angeles Aviation Meet, the first international aviation event held in the United States. The plane on the ground near the center ... |
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