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Katherine Stinson preparing biplane for takeoff

Katherine Stinson

A mechanic working with Orville Wright gives Orville a piggyback as they walk in a river.

Orville Wright Gets a Piggyback Ride

Black and white of Jules Vedrines wrapped in a leather flying suit and surrounded by others.

Jules Védrines in Flying Suit

Newspaper page featuring article written by Harriet Quimby

How I Won My Aviator's License

Side view of wooden and metal monoplane. Under the left wing, the plane is marked as owned by the "U.S. Mail".

Queen Bleriot Used in First Mail Flight

Arch Hoxsey stands beside Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt - First Presidential Flight, 1910

President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and pilot Arch Hoxsey (right) seated in Hoxsey's Wright (Co) Type AB.

Theodore Roosevelt - First Presidential Flight, 1910

A woman sits in a bucket to be brought up a solar tower.

Phoebe Waterman Haas Ascending Solar Tower

Black and white portrait of Latham with a cigarette in his mouth and a slight smile.

Portrait of Hubert Latham

Black and white photo of Hubert Latham sitting at the controls of his aircraft.

Hubert Latham in His "Antoinette IV"

Black and white photograph of Wilbur Wright preparing his aircraft.

Wright Aircraft at Military Trial

Black and white photo of photographers standing in a row.

Photographers at Military Flight Trials

Black and white photo of the Wright Flyer in flight with crowd of onlookers below.

Wright Flyer During Military Trials

Front cover of a weekly magazine. The magazine's topic is about airplanes and has an illustration of people watching an airplane in flight.

L'Assiette au Beurre Magazine on Airplanes

A person flies an early biplane with multiple box-like shapes forming the wings and nose.

Santos-Dumont making the first public flight in Europe

A page of an article from the late-1800s about a potential connection between bicycles and flight.

The Aeronautical Annual