Black painted steel bar, from Replica 1903 ‘Wright Flyer’ aircraft
Black painted – oblong in section - steel bar, with cone shaped tube fixed to one end, from the Replica, of the 1903 ‘Wright Flyer’ aircraft, by The de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, 1948. The actual 1903 ‘Wright Flyer’: - designed and built by the Wright Brothers: Orville and Wilbur, achieved the world’s first successful heavier-than-air powered flight, on 17th December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States.
Details
- Category:
- Aeronautics
- Object Number:
- 1948-268/6
- Materials:
- steel (metal) and paint
- type:
- component - object
- credit:
- The de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School
