File:Wright First Flight 1903Dec17 (full restore 115).jpg

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Summary

Description

English: The first powered, controlled, sustained airplane flight in history. Orville Wright, age 32, is at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. His brother, Wilbur Wright, age 36, ran alongside to help balance the machine, having just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing. The starting rail, the wing-rest, a coil box, and other items needed for flight preparation are visible behind the machine. (Orville Wright preset the camera and had John T. Daniels squeeze the rubber bulb, tripping the shutter.)

This image was restored by User:Wright Stuf in November, 2018 using GIMP.

Date

17 December 1903 (restored 2018 Dec. 17)

Source

File:Wright_first_flight.tif

Author

John T. Daniels (1873–1948)
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	31 July 1873	31 January 1948
Work period	1902
Authority file	: Q6259960 RKD: 411893

Other versions

This file has an extracted image: Wright First Flight 1903Dec17 (full restore 115) (cropped).jpg.

File:Wrightflyer highres.jpg

Unrestored source image, heavily damaged
File:Wright First Flight 1903Dec17 (restore 115).tif

2018 restoration (rough edges kept)
File:First flight2.jpg

2009 restoration by Durova, showing 3/4ths of the original frame (also rotated by ~0.7 degrees).
File:Wright First Flight 1903Dec17 (full restore 115, colorized).jpg

2018 restoration, colorized in 2021

Licensing

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:24, 17 December 2018	7,162 × 5,178 (12.6 MB)	Wright Stuf	Black border trimmed off.
	23:21, 17 December 2018	7,500 × 5,406 (12.35 MB)	Wright Stuf	Contrast adjusted for aesthetics.
	23:14, 17 December 2018	7,500 × 5,406 (9.87 MB)	Wright Stuf	User created page with UploadWizard