Wright Airplane Flying near Launching Derrick, Camp d'Avours, near Le Mans, France, 1908
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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 to doubt that the Wrights had ever flown. Skeptics were silenced in August 1908 when Wilbur Wright made a series of spectacular demonstration flights at Le Mans, France, achieving more distance and control than anyone else.
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 to doubt that the Wrights had ever flown. Skeptics were silenced in August 1908 when Wilbur Wright made a series of spectacular demonstration flights at Le Mans, France, achieving more distance and control than anyone else.
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
1908
Creators
Creator Notes
Original photography attributed to J. Thezard, Paris, France.
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2000.53.123
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Glass (Material)
Technique
Gelatin dry plate process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 5.25 in
Width: 7.25 in
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