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Dan Tate and the Wright brothers launching the Wright glider, Outer Banks, North Carolina, 1903

Dan Tate and the Wright brothers launching the Wright glider, Outer Banks, North Carolina, 1903 Photograph
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Photograph by Octave Chanute, October 1903

9 cm x 12 cm

Removed from the Godfrey Lowell Cabot photographs

Stored in the Octave Chanute photographs

Special Colls. Photo. 218.145

Handwritten caption on verso:  "8. Just let go"


[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

This October 1903 photograph of the Wright brothers' glider experiments at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina was taken by engineer Octave Chanute. It is part of a collection of photographs of early aircraft, equipment, and experiments with flight collected by Boston businessman, inventor, and aviation pioneer Godfrey Lowell Cabot.