ORVILLE WRIGHT
Hand-signed Kitty Hawk postcard, Dayton, Ohio, 1930
Photographic postcard with original, hand-addressed, postmarked envelope
11.5 × 16 cm
Certificate:
Nate D. Sanders, Los Angeles
Orville Wright was an American aviation pioneer who, together with his brother Wilbur Wright, invented, built and flew the world’s first successful motor-operated airplane.
On 17 December 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they made the first controlled, sustained flight with a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the so-called ‘Wright Flyer’. In 1904–1905, the Wright brothers developed their flying machine to make longer-running and more aerodynamic flights with the Wright Flyer II, followed by the first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer III. The brothers' breakthrough was their creation of a three-axis control system, which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium.
Over a hundred years after the flight in Kitty Hawk, NASA named the first Martian take-off and landing area for the 2021 Ingenuity helicopter 'Wright Brothers Field'. Ingenuity arrived on Mars stored under the Perseverance rover as part of the Mars 2020 mission, was flown five times from Wright Brothers Field between April 19 and May 7, 2021, and was flown away from the field on its fifth flight on May 7. The helicopter carried a small piece of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer attached to a cable underneath its solar panel.
This wonderful Orville Wright signed photographic postcard, depicts what Smithsonian Magazine called 'one of the most famous photographs ever taken’, and is captioned ‘First Man-Flight, December 17, 1903 / Kitty Hawk, N.C.'
The postcard comes with the original envelope sent in 1930 by Orville Wright to Ruth Johnson. Both the envelope and the postcard show light tears to the margins and small creases.
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Hand-signed Kitty Hawk postcard, Dayton, Ohio, 1930
Photographic postcard with original, hand-addressed, postmarked envelope
11.5 × 16 cm
Certificate:
Nate D. Sanders, Los Angeles
Orville Wright was an American aviation pioneer who, together with his brother Wilbur Wright, invented, built and flew the world’s first successful motor-operated airplane.
On 17 December 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they made the first controlled, sustained flight with a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the so-called ‘Wright Flyer’. In 1904–1905, the Wright brothers developed their flying machine to make longer-running and more aerodynamic flights with the Wright Flyer II, followed by the first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer III. The brothers' breakthrough was their creation of a three-axis control system, which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium.
Over a hundred years after the flight in Kitty Hawk, NASA named the first Martian take-off and landing area for the 2021 Ingenuity helicopter 'Wright Brothers Field'. Ingenuity arrived on Mars stored under the Perseverance rover as part of the Mars 2020 mission, was flown five times from Wright Brothers Field between April 19 and May 7, 2021, and was flown away from the field on its fifth flight on May 7. The helicopter carried a small piece of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer attached to a cable underneath its solar panel.
This wonderful Orville Wright signed photographic postcard, depicts what Smithsonian Magazine called 'one of the most famous photographs ever taken’, and is captioned ‘First Man-Flight, December 17, 1903 / Kitty Hawk, N.C.'
The postcard comes with the original envelope sent in 1930 by Orville Wright to Ruth Johnson. Both the envelope and the postcard show light tears to the margins and small creases.
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