Witnessing History: Orville Wright’s Flight Record at Fort Myer in 1909

We posted another piece about this event a while back. This is a much higher resolution image from the event at Fort Myer.

Source: Library of Congress

Wright’s Fort Myer demonstrations were part of the same aviation lineage that the Smithsonian had been collecting around since 1876. The institution chartered the National Air Museum in 1946; the building that holds it today opened in 1976. We’ve put together the full history of the Air and Space Museum from balloon launches to Brutalist marble.