https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/artifact/406049
Positioning the Wright Flyer on the Launch Rail, France, 1908-1909
The Wright brothers' early airplanes had no wheels, just simple landing skids. To achieve takeoff, they devised a clever catapult system. The airplane was...
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https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/artifact/406055
Wilbur Wright Piloting the Wright Flyer, France, 1908-1909
Worried that rivals would steal their yet-to-be patented designs, the Wright brothers stopped flying publicly for nearly three years in late 1905. People began...
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https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/artifact/406034
Preparing the Wright Flyer's Launching Derrick, France, 1908-1909
The Wright brothers' early airplanes had no wheels, just simple landing skids. To achieve takeoff, they devised a clever catapult system. The airplane was...
wright flyerfrance 1908preparinglaunchingderrick
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/artifact/406038
Crowd Watching Wilbur Wright Preparing the Flyer, France, 1908-1909
Wilbur Wright's many demonstration flights in France in 1908 and 1909 were spectacular events. Some in Europe had begun to doubt the Wrights' achievement at...
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https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/artifact/406082
Leon Bollee in the Wright Flyer, Camp d'Auvours, near Le Mans, France, 1908-1909
Leon Bollee was a close and important friend to Wilbur Wright during Wright's airplane demonstrations in France in 1908. Bollee offered Wright workspace and a...
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/artifact/307184
Wright Airplane Flying near Launching Derrick, Camp d'Avours, near Le Mans, France, 1908
Worried that rivals would steal their yet-to-be patented designs, the Wright brothers stopped flying publicly for nearly three years in late 1905. People began...
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/artifact/406003
Interior of the Hangar at Camp d'Auvours, near Le Mans, France, 1908-1909
Just as he and his brother had done in North Carolina earlier in the decade, Wilbur Wright used a simple wooden hangar as his base of operations during his...
https://archive.org/details/maidsandmatronso00peppuoft/page/n12
Maids [and] matrons of New France : Pepper, Mary Sifton, d. 1908 : Free Download, Borrow, and...
Authorities consulted: p. ix