Orville Collection

Wright 1903 Photo
Orville Wright, watched anxiously by his brother Wilbur, achieves the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1904 May

Wright Bros / & Planes
Portraits of Wilbur (left) and Orville (right) Wright and pictures of their planes

Diagram of the Wright Brothers aeroplane
A diagram from 1908 showing a perspective view of the Wright Brothers aeroplane. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight on December 17th 1903, covering 36 metres in 12 seconds

Kitty Hawk Bay viewed from the Wright brothers 1900 camp. Date 1900

Close-up view of machine on launching track at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1904 June or July

Front view of flight 41, Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1905 Sept. 29

Wright Brothers, aviation pioneers, at Pau, France, 1909
The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur), American aviation pioneers, at Pau, France, where they were giving various flight demonstrations to set new records for altitude and duration. 1909

The Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on 17th December 1903. Wilbur watching Orville piloting the plane. Date: early 1900s

Wright Brothers, aviation pioneers, in France
The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur), American aviation pioneers, in France on 21 January 1909. They were giving various flight demonstrations to set new records for altitude and duration. 1909

Wright Brothers, American aviation pioneers, in action
The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur), American aviation pioneers, making a flight to set new records for altitude and duration. circa 1909

Horace Short, Orville Wright, Oswald Short, Wilbur Wright
From left: Horace Short, Orville Wright, Oswald Short, Wilbur Wright and Griffith Brewer at Shellbeach, 4 May 1909. Date: 1909

Flight carried out by one of the Wright brothers plane models. Engraving

Katharine Wright, wearing a leather jacket, cap, and goggles, aboard the Wright Model HS airplane with Orville, 1915. Date 1915

Hawthorn Hill, Dayton, Ohio, USA, former home of Orville Wright, flying pioneer. Date: circa 1940s

Signpost near Brownwood, Texas, USA, with a welcoming party of men. From left to right: C.V. Conlisk, L.A. McCristy, A.W. Springer, I.K. Floyd, Joe Blagg, N.K. Brady, Fred R. Donohoo, John A

Wright Flight 1909
On a sunny day, American aviation pioneer ORVILLE WRIGHT stunned a crowd of spectators at the Temelhofer Feld, Berlin, Germany, by flying for over 19 minutes. Date: August 1909

The Horseshoe Room, The National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio. From left: Orville Wright, Griffith Brewer

The First Gold Medal of the Aeronautical Society
Presentation of the first Gold Medal of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain to Wilbur and Orville Wright for their distinguished services to Aeronautical Science at the Institution of Civil

Orville Wright (third from right) at the memorial for the pioneer flyers trained at Wright Brothers Field. 19 August 1940

Dedication of the Wright Homestead at Greenfield Village. From left: Griffith Brewer, Henry Ford and Orville Wright

Orville Wright and Griffith Brewer at the Wright Memorial, NC. 22 October 1933. Date: 1933

Orville Wright, Vilhjalmur Stefansson
From left: Orville Wright, Vilhjalmur Stefansson (the Arctic explorer), Katharine Wright and Oswald Short at the Wrights house in Dayton, Ohio. 1922. Date: 1922

Orville Wright and Griffith Brewer at Huffman Prairie 1914
Orville Wright and Griffith Brewer at Huffman Prairie, 1914. Date: 1914

Wilbur (centre) and Orville Wright, Prof Huntington and Griffith Brewer (extreme right) at Shellbeach, 4 May 1909. Date: 1909

Lord Northcliffe and Orville Wright with the Wright A at Pau, 1909. Date: 1909

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Orville Wright 1871-1948
Orville Wright, 1871-1948. Date: 1948

Ed Sines and Orville Wright in the back room of the bicycle shop. 1897

Lord Northcliffe (in the fur coat) helping to haul the Wright A at Pau, 1909. The former Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Balfour is standing to the left of Lord Northcliffe

The 1911 Wright glider in flight with Orville Wright flying. Date: 1911

WRIGHT, Orville (1871-1948). Oil on canvas

Orville with Scipio, a St. Bernard dog he acquired in March
Orville Wright with Scipio, a St. Bernard dog he acquired in March, 1917. Date 1921 Feb

Close-up view of damaged 1903 machine, rudder frame broken in landing, on ground at end of last flight. Date 1903 Dec. 17

View of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, which includes the bay, photographed by the Wright brothers in the vicinity of their 1900 camp, where they conducted their first gliding experiments in October

Flight 29: machine close to the ground, Orville piloting, covering a distance of 640 feet in 15 seconds; Dayton, Ohio. Date 1904 Aug. 13

Childhood portraits of Wilbur Wright. Date between 1901 and 1928

Magneto side of the Wright four-cylinder motor used in 1911. Date 1911

Closeup view of the Wright brothers tent at Kitty Hawk, a half mile from Captain Tates home. Date 1900

Orville Wright, age 34, head and shoulders, with mustache. Date 1905

Glider at Kitty Hawk. Date 1911

Close-up view of rudders and elevator of glider in front of the camp building at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

Side view of flight 41, showing the machine traveling to the right, with double horizontal rudder in front and double vertical rudder behind, as Orville flew 12 miles; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio

Rear view of the Wright brothers four-cylinder motor as installed in their 1903 airplane. Date 1928 Jan. 6

Three-quarter left rear view of glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

Side view of glider flying as a kite near the ground, Wilbur at left and Orville at right, glider turned forward to right and tipped downward. Date 1901

Long-range view of the Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station and Weather Bureau Station. Date 1900

1903 machine on the launching track at Big Kill Devil Hill, prior to the December 14th trial. Four men from the Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station helped move it from the shed to the hill

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