BGuthrie Photos: Natl Air and Space Museum -- Event: World's First Military Airplane: A Public Symposium on the 1909 Wright Military Flyer

Natl Air and Space Museum -- Event: World's First Military Airplane: A Public Symposium on the 1909 Wright Military Flyer:

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Description of Pictures: The World’s First Military Airplane: A Public Symposium on the 1909 Wright Military Flyer:
The culminating event of the year-long Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum observance of the Centennial of Military Aviation will be an evening public symposium on the 1909 Wright Military Flyer. This aircraft is the world’s first military airplane, a seminal object in the history of aviation. The Wright brothers began the first training of American military pilots in this very airplane at nearby College Park Airport on October 8, 1909. The symposium will cover the history of this important aircraft and the beginnings of U.S. military aeronautics. Included in the presentation will be rarely seen photographs and film footage of the Wright Military Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia and at College Park, Maryland.
The program will include several of the world’s experts on various aspects of the Wright Military Flyer, including Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum curators Peter Jakab and Tom Crouch; College Park Aviation Museum Director, Cathy Allen; and Ken Hyde and Paul Glenshaw of The Wright Experience, renown builders of flying reproduction Wright brothers aircraft.

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1. WRIG1_091007_859.JPG: Jack Dailey greets the speakers afterward
2. WRIG1_091007_875.JPG: The guy on the left is a descendant of the Wrights
3. WRIG2_091007_004.JPG: The World's First Military Airplane: A Public Symposium on the 1909 Wright Military Flyer
4. WRIG2_091007_009.JPG: (left) Wilbur Wright 1867-1912 (right) Orville Wright 1871-1948
5. WRIG2_091007_011.JPG: "A Machine of Practical Utility" Huffman Prairie October 1905
6. WRIG2_091007_013.JPG: Orville Wright and Hart O. Berg
7. WRIG2_091007_018.JPG: Remains of the old camp with new building, May 1908
8. WRIG2_091007_024.JPG: The first published photo of a Wright airplane in flight -- taken by Colliers; photographer James Hare and published in the New York Times, May 20, 1908
9. WRIG2_091007_029.JPG: Camp d'Auvours, Le Mans August 21, 1908 - January 2, 1909
10. WRIG2_091007_035.JPG: Photographing Wilbur, Les Hunaudieres August 1908
11. WRIG2_091007_038.JPG: Orville Wright, Ft. Myer, Va. 20 Flights September 3-17, 1908
12. WRIG2_091007_047.JPG: Ft. Myer, September 17, 1908 The crash that killed Selfridge.
13. WRIG2_091007_049.JPG: 1909 Orville and Katharine on board S.S. Kronprinzessin Cecilie January 1909
14. WRIG2_091007_050.JPG: Pau, France Wilbur makes 273 flights February 3 - March 2, 19090 Instructs Paul Tissandier and Count de Lambert
15. WRIG2_091007_054.JPG: Pau -- February 15, 1909 Katharine Wright's flies for the first time
16. WRIG2_091007_057.JPG: Centocelle, Italy -- 50 flights from April 15-26, 1903 Wilbur instructs Lts. Mario Calderara and Umberto Savoia Photo taken by Hart O. Berg from a balloon, this is the first photo of an airplane taken from the air.
17. WRIG2_091007_060.JPG: White House Ceremony June 10, 1909
18. WRIG2_091007_062.JPG: Wright Brothers Homecoming Celebration, June 17-18, 1909
19. WRIG2_091007_066.JPG: Ft. Myer, June 9 - July 30, 1909 Orville -- 27 flights Sale of the World's First Military Airplane
20. WRIG2_091007_070.JPG: Orville Wright Makes the First Public Flights in Germany, 30 flights, August 13 - September 30, 1909
21. WRIG2_091007_074.JPG: Glenn H. Curtiss August 16, 1909 The Beginning of the Patent Suits
22. WRIG2_091007_078.JPG: Wilbur Prepares for a Hudson-Fulton Flight September 29 - October 4, 1909
23. WRIG2_091007_081.JPG: October 4 - Governor's Island to Grant's Tomb and return -- 20 miles in 33 minutes -- One million New Yorkers are watching
24. WRIG2_091007_085.JPG: Wilbur Wright's map of his flight from Governor's Island to the Statue of Liberty and Grant's Tomb and back October 4, 1908
25. WRIG2_091007_087.JPG: Wilbur and Lt. F.E. Humphries -- College Park, Maryland October 8 - November 2, 1909 -- 138 flights Instructs Lts. Lahm, Humphries and Foulois
26. WRIG2_091007_147.JPG: Selfridge aboard the plane -- the crash is later
27. WRIG2_091007_170.JPG: President Taft arrives
28. WRIG2_091007_203.JPG: The Wright Brothers on Film Footage from Fort Myer, Virginia July 1909 Presentation by Paul Glenshaw
29. WRIG2_091007_331.JPG: 1909 Military Flyer Reproduction A Technical Overview Ken Hyde Wright Experience
30. WRIG2_091007_341.JPG: Letter from Orville to Wilbur telling him about a recent design change
31. WRIG2_091007_371.JPG: Various ways to show how the controls worked in the Wright fliers
32. WRIG2_091007_452.JPG: Changes to the flier over time
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