
Wright Flyer III
Wright Flyer III (replica), flying display during the 21st edition of Aviatická pouť air show, Pardubice, June 2011. On 17th December 1903, near Kill Devil Hills in the vicinity of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, […]
Wright Flyer III (replica), flying display during the 21st edition of Aviatická pouť air show, Pardubice, June 2011. On 17th December 1903, near Kill Devil Hills in the vicinity of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, […]
On 18th October 1909, Charles de Lambert, flying Wright Model A aeroplane, became the first person to circle the Eiffel Tower with an aircraft. Charles Alexandre Maurice Joseph Marie Jules Stanislas Jacques Count de Lambert […]
On 4th October 1909, Wilbur Wright performed a demonstration flight in New York, flying along the Hudson River, being witnessed by a crowd of more than one million people. The flight was performed within a […]
On 2nd August 1909, the first example of Wright Military Flyer was delivered to the US Army Signal Corps. Officially designated ´Signal Corps No. 1´, and commonly known as ´Aeroplane No. 1´, the Wrights´ aircraft […]
On 5th July 1929, Curtiss-Wright Corporation was formed by consolidation of Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co and ten other companies. The merge created the biggest aviation company in the United States, with […]
On 2nd June 1910, Charles Rolls made a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel with a Wright aeroplane. Charles Steward Rolls, the British aviation and motoring pioneer, was born on 27th August 1877 in […]
The Wright brothers arrived at Kitty Hawk, to perform the further flights with their 1902 Wright Glider. On 25 September 1903, the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright came to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to carry […]
An aeroplane was born. On 17th December 1903, near Kill Devil Hills in the vicinity of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, for the first time in history a heavier-than-air powered aircraft, successfully took from the […]
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