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(7)Original Wright Bros 8X10 Glass Plate Negatives

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This lot contains seven 8 X 10 glass negatives from the first flights of the Wright Flyer training Army Air Corps officers to fly at the newly developed airdrome at College Park Maryland. The photographer is believed to be G.B Luckey. Most of these photographs are either unpublished or have not been found as being published. In 1908 the Wright brothers secured a contract with the U.S. Army Signal Corps to supply flying machines and train pilots. The Wrights would prove their machine’s qualifications at Fort Myer, a military base in Arlington County, VA. They met or exceeded all of the Army’s specifications, including flying at 40 miles per hour, carrying a combined passenger weight of 350 pounds, maneuvering in any direction in the air, landing without damage, and flying for at least an hour non-stop, which was a world record at the time. Ft. Myer proved to be unsatisfactory for the contract. The field was much too small to make any kind of significant maneuvers, and the crowds flocked to Ft. Myer in the thousands. The Army selected a 160-acre field in College Park, close to the Maryland Agricultural College, as the site for further testing, leasing it from a farmer on August 25, 1909. College Park was chosen for its proximity to the railroad tracks, making it easy to transport necessary material and personnel to the site. The final part of the Wrights’ contract specified that they had to train two Army men to fly their machine. Lieutenants Lahm and Benjamin D. Foulois were chosen to be the first officers to be trained by Wright, but due to Foulois’ selection for the International Congress of Aeronautics in France, he was replaced by Lt. Frederic E. Humphreys of the Corps of Engineers. Wilbur Wright was to train the pilots as Orville was in Berlin at the time, demonstrating their Flyer to the German government. Wilbur first took to the air with his students on October 8, 1909, and over the course of four weeks, taught them to maneuver and land the plane, as well as how to coast to the ground with a dead engine. On October 26, Humphreys and Lahm flew solo for the first time. Once Wilbur had finished training Lahm and Humphreys, he gave the returning Foulois a total of 54 minutes of flight time, before Lahm and Humphreys crashed the plane on November 5, ending military flights for several months. Please note that these are the original *X10 glass plate negatives. For this listing the images of the glass plates have been reversed in Photoshop for easier viewing. You are not bidding on positive images. Plate 1 - Shows hangar at College Park with the Wright 1909 military Flyer, Signal Corps #1. Wilbur Wright is behind the airplane to the right. Picture taken early October 1909 as the wing warp modifications made by Wilbur have not yet been installed. The engine is off the plane at this time most likely for transport from Fort Myer. Plate 2 - The Wright military Flyer in the hangar at College Park. Identified in the photo are Wilbur Wright and Lt. Frank Lahm This image was published in the October 10, 1909 Baltimore Sun and the October 1909 Book of Royal Blue by B&O Railroad with photo credit to G.B. Luckey who worked for Leslie's Weekly. Plate 3 - The 1908 Wright Flyer in flight with a passenger at Fort Myer. The American flag was not on the airplane during the flight with Lt. Selfridge who was killed on the Sept. 17th flight, so this is either the flight with Lt. Lahm on September 9 or Major squire on Sept 12. Plate 4 - College Park field 1909. Wright flyer is in the hangar. Plate 5 - Hangars at College Park Field circa 1910. Note railroad tracks to the right. Plate 6 - Same as Plate 5 but with automobiles Plate 7 - This photo is most likely a composite photo that was re photographed. It is shot from the interior of a train car supposedly on the tracks next to the buildings in Plates 5& 6. The symmetry is not equal to the actual landscape and the exposures seem to be different from the inside of the train car to the outside, coupled with the fact that the negative image is printed on a piece of plate glass and not the thinner photographic glass plate,

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(7)Original Wright Bros 8X10 Glass Plate Negatives
(7)Original Wright Bros 8X10 Glass Plate Negatives
Lot number: 2177
Seller: Donley Auction Services Inc.
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