Box 18C
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Hart O. Berg, an unknown German general officer, and a film crew watch preparations for takeoff, 1909 Oct.
Item — Box: 18C, Folder: 8, Item: 21
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 Oct.
A small group of spectators watching Orville Wright’s 500 meter flight at Bornstedt Field, 1909
Item — Box: 18C, Folder: 9, Item: 21
Scope and Contents
The flight established a new unofficial world altitude record.
Dates:
1909
A high flight at Tempelhof Field., 1909
Item — Box: 18C, Folder: 10, Item: 21
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
