BGuthrie Photos: Natl Archives -- Larry Tise ("Conquering the Sky")

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Description of Pictures: Conquering the Sky: The Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
Following their first powered flights in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright enjoyed anonymity until 1908. In Conquering the Sky, Larry Tise describes how the Wright brothers were catapulted into unwanted fame by the international press as they tried to prove the capabilities of their flying machines and obtain lucrative government contracts. Tise also discusses the repercussions of the flights in war and military technology. A book signing will follow.
The speaker was introduced by Charles Downs, Textual Archives Division, National Archives.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NASKY_091028_005.JPG: Doug Swanson
2. NASKY_091028_011.JPG: Doug Swanson
3. NASKY_091028_013.JPG: Conquering the Sky: The Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk 2009
4. NASKY_091028_017.JPG: Larry Tise, Charles Downs
5. NASKY_091028_027.JPG: Larry Tise, Lynne Joiner, Doug Swanson
6. NASKY_091028_058.JPG: Charles Downs
7. NASKY_091028_100.JPG: Larry Tise
8. NASKY_091028_152.JPG: Conquering the Sky -- The Premise: Although Wilbur & Orville Wright learned how to fly by 1902 and put a powered airplane in the air in 1903, the world did not, in fact, discover the Wright brothers until May 1908.
9. NASKY_091028_153.JPG: Conquering the Sky -- The Dilemma: "There is much in the papers about the Wright brothers. They have fame, but not wealth, yet. Both these things aspired after by so many, are vain." -- Bishop Milton Wright's diary, 30 November 1906
10. NASKY_091028_159.JPG: Conquering the Sky -- The Public Story: This is the story of how a band of intrepid reporters chased the Wright brothers to Kitty Hawk in May 1908 on a mission - to observe the brothers in flight, - to make a photograph of their machine in the air, and - to report their flying secrets to an expectant world.
11. NASKY_091028_171.JPG: Manteo -- 1908 Information Central
12. NASKY_091028_190.JPG: Manteo News Bureau -- the Weather Station
13. NASKY_091028_199.JPG: Alpheus W. Drinkwater -- Quintessential Storyteller
14. NASKY_091028_209.JPG: Alpheus W. Drinkwater -- of Many and Varied Guises
15. NASKY_091028_212.JPG: Swaggering Lifesavers
16. NASKY_091028_215.JPG: Essential Ground Crew
17. NASKY_091028_246.JPG: The 1908 Camp at Kitty Hawk
18. NASKY_091028_251.JPG: The Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station Looming on the Ocean Nearby
19. NASKY_091028_254.JPG: Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station Daily Logs 1908
20. NASKY_091028_309.JPG: 6 May -- Final Preparations for Flight
21. NASKY_091028_318.JPG: Wilbur Directing the Action -- Lifesavers at the Ready
22. NASKY_091028_321.JPG: Orville Adjusting the Machine
23. NASKY_091028_325.JPG: The Gathering of Scribes
24. NASKY_091028_327.JPG: Reporters Strolling from the Sound
25. NASKY_091028_331.JPG: 13 May -- All Reporters Are in Place
26. NASKY_091028_336.JPG: James Hare, Photojournalist -- a Very Sandy Self-Portrait
27. NASKY_091028_344.JPG: James Hare's Distant Photograph from West Hill
28. NASKY_091028_360.JPG: Enlarged Detail from James Hare's First Photo
29. NASKY_091028_383.JPG: Chigger Chafing Casualties
30. NASKY_091028_389.JPG: The month of May, 1908, will doubtless be known to future generations as the most important period in the development of aerial navigation... During the middle week of May civilization learned that mechanical flight was at last a reality and not a mere human aspiration... I went down to North Carolina a pronounced skeptic ... I believe all of these things now and much more... -- Byron R. Newton, Correspondent, New York Herald, June 1908
31. NASKY_091028_391.JPG: 8 August -- Wilbur's First Flight at LeMans, France
32. NASKY_091028_396.JPG: The Dreamer in Contemplation in France
33. NASKY_091028_419.JPG: The Mechanical Genius Many Years Later -- At Play
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