Red Wing - The first aeroplane to make a public flight in America – Vintage Print
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A window into the past: Red Wing - The first aeroplane to make a public flight in America, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Red Wing - The first aeroplane to make a public flight in America
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Red Wing takes its name from the red silk covering its wing cells, and in March 1908 it made what is recorded as the first public flight of an aeroplane in America, at Hammondsport, New York, over the frozen surface of Lake Keuka. The machine was built by the Aerial Experiment Association, a group organized under Alexander Graham Bell that included Glenn Curtiss, J.A.D. McCurdy, and Casey Baldwin. The association later produced the Silver Dart in Canada. Worth noticing is how light the craft was, built from bamboo, silk and wire, which reflects the experimental methods of the period.
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,396 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122212 |
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