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Box 18C

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Orville Wright and Frau Hildebrandt ready for a flight at Tempelhof Field, 1909 Sept. 9

 Item — Box: 18C, Folder: 8, Item: 11
Scope and Contents

Frau Hildebrandt became the first woman to fly in an airplane in Germany.

Dates: 1909 Sept. 9

Guest spectators on the flying field watching a flight., 1909

 Item — Box: 18C, Folder: 9, Item: 11
Scope and Contents From the Series: Orville and Katharine Wright arrived in Berlin on August 19, 1909. Orville had come to fulfill a contract signed at Pau with the August Scherl Company, newspaper publishers, for public exhibition flights in Berlin, and with the Flugmaschine Wright Gesellschaft, or German Wright Flying Machine Company, for demonstration and training flights for student pilot Captain Paul Englehard. Orville flew exhibition flights at Tempelhof Field in Berlin between August 30 and September 18. He flew...
Dates: 1909

A different view showing spectators in cars and carriages watching a flight., 1909

 Item — Box: 18C, Folder: 10, Item: 11
Scope and Contents From the Series: Orville and Katharine Wright arrived in Berlin on August 19, 1909. Orville had come to fulfill a contract signed at Pau with the August Scherl Company, newspaper publishers, for public exhibition flights in Berlin, and with the Flugmaschine Wright Gesellschaft, or German Wright Flying Machine Company, for demonstration and training flights for student pilot Captain Paul Englehard. Orville flew exhibition flights at Tempelhof Field in Berlin between August 30 and September 18. He flew...
Dates: 1909