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Early Flight, The Samuel P. Langley Gallery of

March 26, 1980 - Permanent

Museum: Air and Space Museum

Location: Gallery 107, 1st Floor, West Wing

This re-created indoor aeronautical exhibition (circa 1913) highlights the early history of the airplane from antiquity through the first decade of powered flight. Period furnishings, talking mannequins, and ragtime music combine to bring back the special ambience of the time.

Highlights include:

• Wright 1909 Military Flyer: the world's 1st military airplane
• Lilienthal glider: glider that inspired Wilbur and Orville Wright, 1894
• 1912 Curtiss Pusher
• 1914 Bleriot XI monoplane
• Ecker Flying Boat: 

Theater with video presentation

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