When the Wright brothers first went to Kitty Hawk, NC, they pitched a tent on the beach.
Here is their camp.
1901
close-up view of the Wright Brothers' camp at Kitty Hawk. I'll bet the wood structure was for their plane and the men slept in the tent.
1901
This is the kitchen inside the Wright Brothers' camp at Kitty Hawk.
So tidy.
Any mother would be proud.
Did you know that the Wright Brothers manufactured airplanes for a while? They tried to sell them to the US War Department; but so did a lot of other guys.
This is the Wright Brothers' airplane factory in Dayton.
1911
Orville Wright and a neighbor work on bicycle frames.
1897
The Wright Brothers in front of their second airplane design.
Dayton
1904
Wilbur Wright and Dan Tate test a glider design by flying it as a kite.
Kitty Hawk
September 19. 1902
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1/ from our first story in last week's newsletter:
"Construction of the Issoudun Aerodrome in rural France began in July 1917, and although the air base was still under construction, the first American flight students and instructors arrived for flight training in November.
2/ Among them was Harry Wingate, the 22-yr-old son of a GA tobacco farmer and an expert pilot. He was assigned to Training Field #8, one of 11 separate airfields, where he would teach advanced combat flight tactics-what laymen would call stunt flying- in a French Nieuport biplane