Wrecked Wright brothers glider. Crumpled glider designed and flown by the Wright brothers,wrecked in 1900 by the wind on a beach near Kitty Hawk,North Carolina,USA. US aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright carried out a series of glider tests from 1900 to 1902,prior to their first successful flight in a heaver-than-air machine (17 December 1903). The gliders carried a single pilot,but were also flown as kites during testing. This glider was flown from a wooden derrick,but the mooring ropes (visible here) broke away in strong wings and the glider was wrecked. Photographed at Hill of the Wreck (named after a shipwreck) on 10 October 1900 | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Library of Congress |
Bildgröße: | 4280 px × 3444 px |
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